A self-taught artist, Joel Ostlind was born and raised around Casper, Wyoming, he depicts the heritage of the West in his paintings and printmaking.

Ostlind attended Casper College and later the University of Wyoming for a degree in soil science and Texas Christian University for a degree in ranch management. He spent years cowboying on large ranches around the West, and incorporates what he has learned into his paintings.

Ostlind began creating sketches and plein air paintings in his downtime while working at a ranch in Montana. A turning point in his career happened when he showed some of his work to an art director for Marlboro who was in the area photographing ads. The art director encouraged him and told him he thought ...