How Rural Artist Montana came to be.

This is a rural area. Montana. Even the cities that boast populations over a hundred thousand are rural. The beauty here is undeniable but the lifestyle can also be very difficult. Winters can be ceaseless, bone biting cold. Add in darkness and the soul can go mad. The Spring, Summer and Fall provide landscapes that are the balm for this madness. The lifestyle here can be feast or famine. Poverty is more likely then not but for many this is still the best choice. Life is, simply put, less noisy, less conflagrated.

With simplicity comes the ability to see more, hear more, feel more. What I have found in my home State is the room, the expansive sky, the vastness of prairie allow the spirit to be moved. Maybe even awakened. And with this awakening comes the need to create.

I hope you enjoy the interviews and art pieces of the folks I have and will interview. This is as much an opportunity to promote them as it is to simply be part of something higher reaching.

A pair of Sandhill Cranes outside Lewistown MT, graze along with the cattle on the Duffy ranch.