Wendell Locke Field

I walk the hills I paint.

Press Release

A mountain tells us where we are. A woodpile tells us how we live. In Wendell Locke Field's paintings, the two belong to the same story: a life shaped by the land, and the quiet beauty of making a home within it.

Jackson, WY: Opening November 19, 2026 at Shari Brownfield Fine Art, an exhibition of paintings by Kelly, Wyoming-based artist Wendell Locke Field invites us to look closely at the places we call familiar. His paintings of cabins, yurts, greenhouses and hillsides become love letters to Wyoming and the people who make their lives there.

As seasons turn and familiar places change, the paintings become a record of daily life in Wyoming, holding a moment in the life of a place. Field's eye for these familiar worlds began on the Michigan dairy farm where he grew up. Barns and sheds were places to play, imagine and, later, make art. That early curiosity has followed him far beyond the farm, through travels in Asia, Africa and the Americas. His time in Nepal and New Mexico showed him how homes and villages can feel like part of the land around them. That connection between shelter and landscape is still at the center of his work.

"Field works slowly and purposefully," says Shari Brownfield. "His paintings invite us to slow down, pause and notice the places we pass each day." Field's days follow the weather, the light, and the work of hauling water or bringing in firewood. "I walk in the hills I paint," he writes. The closeness is there in the paintings: these are places he returns to, watches and lives with.

The exhibition will run from November 19, 2026 to January 29, 2027. An opening reception with the artist in attendance will be held at Shari Brownfield Fine Art on Thursday, November 19th from 5-7pm. Interviews with the artist and images are available upon request.

Programming Information

  • Exhibition: Wendell Locke Field, I walk the hills I paint.

  • Exhibition dates: November 19, 2026 to January 29, 2027

  • Opening reception: Thursday, November 19, 2026, with the artist in attendance

  • Time: 5-7 PM

  • Location: Shari Brownfield Fine Art, 55 South Glenwood Street, Jackson, WY (in the little log cabin next door to Trio)

  • Contact: Shari Brownfield, 307-413-9262, shari@sharibrownfield.com