Roy Reynolds Artist/Horse Thief Studios

Roy Reynolds Artist/Horse Thief Studios Roy Reynolds, the artist He left Idaho Falls to study art at the University of Idaho and then at the Art Center School in Los Angeles.

Born and raised in Idaho Falls, Roy Reynolds is intrigued by the region's landscape, people, and architecture that serves as inspiration for much of his art. After schooling, Reynolds returned to Idaho and spent years as a cowboy, sometime artist, and worked on the side as art director for singer/songwriter Carole King. Reynolds gave up the cowboy life to work as an illustrator and graphic designe

r for the Idaho National Laboratory for 25 years. The Yellowstone National Park Service and the State of Montana used his watercolors for their Bison Impact Statement; the publication won the first place in the Puget Sound Competition. Separately, Reynolds' illustrations won best of show. After retiring, Reynolds found a studio and started to paint and sculpt full time. In 2000 he won the commission for a sculpture on the Idaho Falls greenbelt. The "Fur Trader" stands on Memorial Drive in downtown Idaho Falls, depicting one of the men who paved the way for Lewis and Clark and all who followed. Reynolds' recent awards include first places in the juried 2004 Eagle Rock Art Guild Spring Show and Idaho Paints Idaho 2004. That same year the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission featured his watercolor series "The Northwest Passage." The image of York from that series was included in a National Geographic video. In 2005 Reynolds won 2nd place in the Idaho Paints Idaho competition. In 2011 Reynolds painting "The Dance Class" won Best Figurative Painting in the Idaho Paints Idaho competition.

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Roy Reynolds

Idaho artist Roy Reynolds finds his artistic vision in the landscape, flora and people of eastern Idaho. His subjects range from local architecture to street people, from farm fields to iris gardens, from nudes to American Indian festival dancer—all of which he interprets as testaments of his community’s beauty, character, identity and sense of place.

Reynolds was born in 1941 and grew up in Idaho Falls when it was a rough little western town full of eccentric characters who served as inspiration for much of his later work in art. He learned to paint at the age of 3 at the kitchen table.

He left Idaho Falls to study at the University of Idaho and later at the Art Center School in Los Angeles. He returned to Idaho Falls and spent years as a cowboy, sometime artist, while working on the side as art director for singer/songwriter Carole King. His cowboy experience is explored in many of his western paintings.

When Carole King retired, Reynolds began work as an illustrator and graphic designer for the Idaho National Laboratory where he worked for 25 years. The Yellowstone National Park Service and the State of Montana used his watercolors for their Bison Impact Statement; the publication won the first place in the Puget Sound Competition. Separately, Reynolds' illustrations won best of show.