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Prices for original paintings are as listed.  all workds on this page are in oil on either stretched canvas or cradled panel unless otherwise listed. 
Pricing for prints varies depending on material and size. See Giclée Prints.
To purchase an original or order a print, please Contact me at mattjazz123@gmail.com 
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Into the out of. 18x24in Oil on cradled birch panel with stained edges. Most recent addition to my series on Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah. The Whole area is utterly bizarre and otherworldly. I took the photo this painting in based on through the dashboard of a moving RV.
Rolling Wheat fields the Palouse. This area or eastern Washington was formed by silt blown off glaciers accumulating over millennia resulting in these wonderfully bizarre dune like forms.  This Painting is 18x24, oil on cradled solid birch panel. 
$1,200  SOLD
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Phillips Arch in Escalante National Monument

Phillips Arch, Escalante National Monument. 
oil on canvas. 18x24in
 $1000. oil on canvas.
​ Created using with many layers made  transparent with gel medium. This allows the  orange background to show through.   Many people have painted the southwest, but nearly everyone paints the patterns of light on the rocks and ignores the complicated crisscrossing in the rocks themselves.  I think these patterns are an essential part of the beauty of the place so I experimented with different techniques until I found a way to accurately depict them. There are up to 6 transparent layers in places. 


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Magic Gateway.  Small Arch in Cayote Gulch. Escalante National Monument.  18x25 oil on birch panel $800
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​ Short hike south  of Jacob Hamblin Arch (painting below).
18x24in oil on  cradled birch panel. I stained the edges of the panel a light pecan and than finished them with spar varnish. 

 I was fascinated by interesting shape the echoes the curve of the stream, and the abrupt light change on the other side that made it feel like a  magic portal.  

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Jacob Hamblin
Jacob Hamblin Arch 3.  18x24in.  Oil on Canvas.
Original Available $1000 
Prints Available. 
​This is the view from "Trail" nto Cayote Gulch. Trail in this case meaning near cliff  face I descended carefully holding onto a rope. I took the reference image for this painting with my cellphone holding onto the rope with my other hand trying really hard not to drop it.  Its hard to get a feeling for how big this arch is from a photo, its enormous.  Conveniently their was a hiker passing by.  He is the tiny speck through the arch next to the tree in the middle of the arch. 
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Jacob Hamblin Arch 2. 18x24in.
​Original Currently Available through the Berkano Gallery 
Prints Available Here.
​Jacob Hamblin Arch (Painting Above) is in bottom right corner. This view is from a bend in the river where the cliff was undercut creating this amazing overarching cave.  
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Jacob Hamblin Arch. 18x24in. Price $800 SOLD 
Prints available.
This Arch is mind bogglingly big. I think it would be one of the most well known in the southwest if you didn't have to rent a 4x4 and drive 50 miles down a beat up washboarded dirt road, navigate across sand and rock hiking without a trail, and then climb down a  near vertical face holding onto a rope on a to get there.  For perspective the tiny speck on the rock in the middle of the steam is my father and those are full grown trees about 80 feet tall. 
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