Evan Cantor

Evan Cantor is a long-time Colorado wilderness artist.  His works are impressionistic windows into the wilderness places he loves and hopes to protect, images that capture the sacredness of the earth through landscape.  These images are informed not only by his own experiences back-of-beyond, but by transcendental philosophies ranging from Thoreau and Whitman to Aldo Leopold and Edward Abbey.  Conservationists may recall Evan’s scratchboard drawings in Wild Earth and Wildflower magazines.  His images have also appeared in several of John Fielder’s books, and works of several University presses, the Rocky Mountain Land Library, Southern Rockies Wildlands Network, and the Northwest Earth Institute. He is a member of the Temagami 22, an invitational group of North American artists concerned with environmental preservation, and was the Rocky Mountain Land Library’s 2005 artist-in-residence.  In 2006 he was honored with an award from the Southern Rockies Conservation Alliance for his “outstanding contribution” of both art and music to the wilderness preservation effort in Colorado.  He took up oil painting at Ghost Ranch in October 2016 and has been going strong ever since.  Evan is also the lead singer of the classic-rock outfit The CBDs, playing the guitar and blues harp. Visit his website: evancantor.com.