T. Allen Lawson’s paintings of mountains, plains, and small-town life accentuate the immaterial play of ephemeral light, shadow, and color. His paintings draw on his robust plein-air practice, which incorporates his observations of the landscape but bends them past literal depiction in his studio towards a quality of metaphor. Even though his paintings are borne through specific experiences in nature, as Lawson has said, “I am not drawn to nor inspired by subject alone.” Instead, Lawson’s work gains a feeling of intimacy and timelessness from Lawson’s desire to capture on canvas the abstract, ephemeral qualities of nature. Born in 1963 in Sheridan, Wyoming, Lawson attended the College of Santa Fe before enrolling in the American Academy of Art in Chicago and later the Lyme Academy of Fine Art in Lyme, Connecticut. He was awarded the prestigious John F and Anna Lee Stacey Grant, the Red Smith Memorial Award at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Jurors’ Choice Award from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, and the Wilson Hurley Memorial Award and the Robert Lougheed Memorial Award at Prix de West International Art Exhibition at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. In 2016, he returned to Wyoming where he continues to find inspiration for his work.