Joshua Tree Artist's Directory

There are literally hundreds of creative types in the High Desert. The desert brings out an amazing diversity of creativity - from an amazing group of artists - across an wide range of art forms. Did you know there is a Chihuly trained artist here working in glass? 

These artists came here for inspiration - so should you!

  • Chloe Allred

    Chloe Allred is a painter, writer, educator and activist based in Los Angeles.

  • James Hammon

    Shamanistic guidance enhanced with ancient archetypes, James Hammons' self taught art is a mystical wonderland of color and character.

  • Gillian Keller

    ENLIGHTENMENT BARBIE! I live and work in Pioneertown, CA. I make mixed media collage artworks and sculpture full-time. Most of my pieces are handmade, one-of-a-kind large-scale artworks.

  • Patrick Hasson

    Self-taught painter Patrick Hasson has created a ground-breaking style he’s dubbed as 'Dripping' (Psychedelic Expressionism).

  • Wendy Gadzuk

    In my work, I strive to illustrate a balance between the constraints of the physical world and our desire to connect with it, and the infinite possibilities of the divine.

  • Zara Kand

    Zara loves translating emotions onto canvas, especially the ones overlooked that reside in dark corners. She feels the closer we can get to confronting the vast world within ourselves, the more power we may possess towards individual assertion amongst a society continually trying to control and deface.

  • Ellie Pritts

    Ellie Pritts (she/they) is a renowned multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores reinterpreted nostalgia via recursive analog and digital processes.

  • Bobby Furst

    Bobby created an amazing space in the middle of the desert - to bring together the Community of Joshua Tree. His space, "Furst Wurld", showcases local artists, musicians and community groups.

  • Diane Best

    Diane Best was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied in the San Francisco area (Stanford University, San Francisco Art Institute), before moving south to the High Desert.

  • Timothy Hearsum

    Hearsum balances the illusionary and the real, using the long axis of the panorama like a conceptual see saw.

  • Robert Arnett

    Landscape oil painter affiliated with California Art Club and Twentynine Palms Art Guild. Interested in documenting in oil paint,  the Wonder Valley homesteads. 

  • Mitch Miller

    My life is woven around Joshua Tree National Park. I’ve hiked and photographed it since 1981, celebrated many birthdays there and married my wife at Sheep Pass campground.

  • Janis Commentz

    Janis Commentz is a southern California impressionistic figurative and landscape painter and facilitated the Morongo Basic Life Drawing League in Joshua Tree for many years.

  • Rose Cefalu

    Every day you can find Rose Cefalu obsessing over her iPhone photos and over-posting on Instagram @joshuatreedesertrose and @rosecefaluphoto.

  • Jen Shakti

    The Desert HeART series is from my direct experiences of exploring and quietly observing the Mojave desert landscape.

  • Miroslav Peric

    Each photo is an absolute personal experience of reality.

    Joshua Tree, California
    Instagram - @gentleshadow
    miroslav@gentleshadow.com

  • Casey Kiernan

    Casey is a local Photographer / Filmmaker living in Joshua Tree, He teaches photography and filmmaking workshops in Joshua Tree National Park / Death Valley.

  • Susan Abbott

    The Night Sky inspires me, Photographs coming from the Hubble telescope and the Northern Lights inspire me. The ideas that "we are stardust, we are golden" and that we are all interconnected inspire me.

  • Snake Jagger

    Snake Jagger refers to his artistic style as Whimsical Surrealism. He is an artist who, while dedicated to the subtle exposition of his personal philosophy, doesn't take himself too seriously and is comfortable working with his tongue planted firmly in cheek.

  • Simone Alexia

    My art is inspired by diving into personal darkness to find the growth and healing that resides there.

  • Marcia Geiger

    I have been a Hi Desert resident for over 25 years, and began painting full time 7 years ago. Mostly self taught in fine art, I have a degree in commercial art, and studied oil painting under the tutelage of Irene Scoggin-Bertrand.

  • Karan Murphy

    I LOVE TO CREATE INTERESTING ART! I love it when family & friends see something different in a piece I've done! It's great to hear them describe how it makes them feel!! 

  • Thomas Alban

    We've always said, "The desert did it to us."  We weren't potters before moving to this beautiful stretch of the Mojave in the Spring of 2000. 

  • Martha Villegas-Valentin

    A bold colorist painter and work with oils, acrylics, oil pastels and charcoals.  I use the techniques of a wide color palette and free-form brush strokes.  

  • Doug Dolde

    To me this is about more than just photography. It's about a passion for creating stunning images, traveling to interesting places, mastering printmaking, and for making my own solid hardwood frames.

  • Kathi Klopfenstein

     I am open to allowing the materials to influence the path as the work takes its shape and comes to life.  My work is an abstract reflection of my life.

  • Paris Birdwell

    In 1994, while attending high school in Tacoma, Wa. she was introduced to hotglass as one of the first students in Dale Chihuly’s high school glassblowing program.

  • Mark Junge

    I paint in the traditions of the Hudson River School artists, but I depict desert and western landscapes.

  • Uli Boege

    Uli received his BA at the art school in Darmstadt, Germany, worked as an Art Director, designer and fine artist in Paris, New York and Los Angeles. Pioneertown, California

  • Jenny Kane

    Jenny Kane is an artist and educator whose multi-disciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, design, photography, and writing.

  • Raini Days Art

    I am a Watercolorist in love with color, surrounded by hidden wonder - a desert dweller and enthusiast.

  • Lavonne Kennedy

    n a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world through her work, a portion of its lost heart. - Louise Bogan

  • Local Artist!

    Sandi Burnett

    Local Artist with some amazing art!

  • Ester Shaw

    Nature has always been my primary subject, whether it is desert, ocean or mountains,

  • Nichole Vikdal

    I have loved pottery all my life. From playing in the mud as a kid to my first pot thrown on the wheel two decades ago,

  • Deane Locke

    have learned most of the techniques that make watercolor paints such fun. I seem to paint mostly birds, barns and blooms.

  • Kat Johnson

    Each of Kat Johnson's cabinets of curiosity has its singular tale to tell-in tangible rhymes that juxtapose time-worn trinkets.

  • Tami Roloff

    Photography is about appreciating the small things in life as well as the beauty in nature.

  • Steffi Sutton

    ZENBUNNYLAND - Fire is in my life. I discovered Pyrogravure in the desert and now it's my passion!

  • Shiela Sasek

    My art is driven by my appreciation of the outdoors and I'm an advocate of ecological preservation.

  • Steven Wybenga

    The stark natural beauty of the Mojave desert inspires my paintings. One of my responsibilities as a landscape painter is documentation.

Also…

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