Santa Fe artist Ke’vin West Bowers will demonstrate pastel/painting at the next meeting of Fountain Hills Art League Monday, March 4.

The group gathers at the Community Center at 6:30 p.m.

West Bowers is a North Idaho native and a Santa Fe transplant. He is an artist who has been collected and shown world-wide for the past 25 years. Galleries representing his work include Horizons Gallery in Santa Fe, Sod Buster Museum in Great Falls, Mont., Morning Glory Gallery in Charleston, S.C. and Saddle Tree Gallery and Frame Shop, in Sun Valley, Idaho.

West Bowers is a self-taught artist, using old masters’ techniques in a contemporary way with each of his works.

While some artists are plein-air painters, West Bowers is a studio painter. He also has a love of teaching and has been teaching for as long as he has been selling and showing professionally.

His artistic statement says it all: “Impact people’s lives in positive ways and fill a space in a beautiful way.”