A Boutique Hotel with an Art Soul

John Taft moved to Colorado in 2004 with his young family to pursue being an artist, leaving his design career in New York City, to follow what felt like a calling. Multiple trips across the country during his college years attending Art Center College of Design in southern California planted the seed of the West as a worthy subject to be painted. National awards and numerous national shows followed, including the Coors Western Art show in Denver, New York’s Salmagundi Club’s American Masters show, several Oil Painters of America National Exhibits and numerous solo shows. His work is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Western Art in Kerrville, Texas, and The Longmont Museum in Colorado. To view more of his work, visit www.johntaft.com.

Adrienne Stein is an award winning American artist living and working in Pennsylvania and Colorado. She holds an MFA from Boston University and a BFA Magna Cum Laude, from Laguna College of Art & Design. Her paintings celebrate the natural world through bold, vibrant color. The lush magical environments she depicts blend reality and fantasy, expressed through a world of symbolic imagery. Adrienne is inspired by her travel experiences as well as the beauty of her garden surrounding the Pennsylvania home she shares with her husband, the artist Quang Ho and their son, Liam.

Quang Ho is an internally recognized artist based in Colorado. Born in 1963 in Vietnam, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1975 and studied with Rene Bruhin at The Colorado Institute of Art. He has held solo exhibitions in London, Houston, Denver, Taos, and Vail. He has had a retrospective show at the Steamboat Springs Art Museum and the Woolaroc Museum in Oklahoma as well as a major exhibit at the Booth Museum in Atlanta.

Don Coen grew up in Lamar, Colorado on his family farm. He attended the University of Denver for his B.F.A. and U.N.C. for his M.F.A. He has had 2 museum tours – one of “The Lamar Series” and one of “The Migrant Series”. He has numerous works in Museums across the United States. He refers to his work as Contemporary Images of Rural America.

A Fulbright Fellow in Jerusalem at the turn of the millennium, Andrew Beckham found his voice through the lens of cosmology, aspiring to provide a poetic response to ontological concerns. Beckham’s work is represented in museum collections nationally, including the MacArthur Foundation, Denver Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Taylor Art Museum at Colorado College, Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, Joslyn Art Museum, and the Phoenix Art Museum’s InFocus Foundation, among others.

Mr. Beckham is the Visual Arts Department Chair at St. Mary’s Academy in Englewood, Colorado. He holds an MA in Aesthetic Theory from Prescott College and a BFA in printmaking and photography from the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Fifth generation Coloradan Duke Beardsley has been drawing and painting the American west for as long as he can remember. Raised both in Denver, and on a 1000 acre cattle ranch in eastern Colorado, Duke’s “dual/duel” upbringing is the foundation for his unique blend of traditional western iconography and modern art sensibilities. An unapologetic fan of all “things cowboy” Duke spends as much time on horseback as possible, joining his many friends and family on some of the West’s great ranches. Duke rides with the crews to participate and observe todays working cowboys and cowgirls in their element. Formally trained at The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Duke now lives and works with his wife and two daughters in Denver.