This Western Town looks down Main Avenue in downtown Twin Falls beneath an evening sky filled with shifting color and light. The streets are wide here, the buildings stay low, and the sky claims its own space.
 
The painting holds the part of the evening when the daily tasks are wrapping up, and people are turning toward home. The pace of the day loosens enough to notice the world that you’ve built your life within. The light settles across the buildings, the sky shifts overhead, and for a moment the town feels still.
 
Western towns are still relatively new places. They were built by people who deliberately chose to come west and settle here. There is room here. Space. The town stretches outward instead of upward because the land around it still feels immense.
 
This painting is about that kind of life and that kind of noticing. A specific place, this place, this western town.
 
This piece was exhibited in Art & Soul.
 
The City of Twin Falls selected this painting to be reproduced at large scale for the Downtown Commons mural area, where it remains installed publicly.