From Pueblo, Colorado, Kim Mackey sought a quiet environment in his birthplace after spending time in Denver where he studied illustration at the Colorado Institute of Art.

He had a career as a commercial artist including being a police-sketch artist, but in 1985, turned full time to his fine art painting because his gallery sales were able to support him financially.

He paints a variety of subjects from still life to figures, but prefers paintings with cowboys and horses and landscape--Colorado ranch life, which reflects his family heritage of a long line of cattle ranchers. He paints primarily in his studio, working from photographs, but also does some painting on location.

Source:
Southwest Art, March 20...