Artists

TREVOR SOUTHEY (1940–2015) was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1940. He joined the Church Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Africa and, in 1967, emigrated to the United States to study at Brigham Young University, where he remained as a professor of art until 1977. Until his death in 2015, Southey was a popular painter and sculptor known for his exacting depictions of the human form.

His family dating back several generations in southern Africa, Trevor Southey (b. 1940) came to the United States from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) as a convert to Mormonism in 1965. He received his education in England, South Africa, and the United States where he progressed from student to faculty at Brigham Young University through 1977. Having moved to San Francisco in 1985, he now maintains homes and studios in both the Bay Area and Salt Lake City. He is the devoted father of four children. Southey’s creative direction was set in the innocence of a great distance from the centers of western art. Yet in Mormonism, the dominant culture of his adopted homeland, he found a rich source for expression. His intuitive romantic idealism found focus in themes as varied as eternal family connections, human interaction, and explorations of the plan of salvation. Although his relationship with the LDS church has changed, his work remains spiritual in nature, finding a wider and deeper expression in the broader human experience. While relishing many aspects of the modern art world, which often broaden his visual language, Southey finds his own artistic inspiration in the human body as expressed in works of the past, especially the high F.enaissance. The nude remains the constant core of his work, with spiritual or sometimes psychological musings and sensual undertones, usually inadvertent, evolving in the process.

BRADLEY SLADE {[email protected]} was fourteen years old when he fell in love with photography. He has been a photographer now for more than forty years. For twenty years he has been photographing for Publications & Graph￾ics at Brigham Young University, working on projects like BYU Magazine and other publications for the university and some of its various colleges. He has also been a longtime photographer for Seeing the Everyday, a magazine that celebrates the prosaic moments within family. His favorite subject is his family, and those are the images that he hopes will last forever.

HERMAN DU TOIT {[email protected]} is a former Director of the School of Fine Art at the Durban University of Technology in South Africa and holds postgraduate degrees in art history, sculpture, and sociology of education from the former University of Natal. He was employed as Head of Audience Education and Development at Brigham Young University Museum of Art. He has published numerous books and articles on visual art and spirituality including Masters of Light: Coming Unto Christ Through Inspired Devotional Art (Cedar Fort, 2016); and The Parables of Jesus Revealing the Plan of Salvation with John and Jeannie Welch (Covenant Publishing, 2019). His prints, draw￾ings, and sculptures are held in private collections in South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

LINDA HOFFMAN KIMBALL {[email protected]} earned her BA from Wellesley College and her MFA from Boston University. She works in a variety of media from printmaking to collage and from photography to fiber arts. She is a writer and a founding member of Mormon Women for Ethical Govern￾ment. Raised near Chicago and a convert to the Church during her college years, she now lives in rural Utah where she is one of the many “ministers” in the Woodland Ward.

1952. I was born in Canada and raised in Utah. Received a BFA and MFA from BYU and taught printmaking there for sixteen years. Drawing and then painting desert landscape has been my primary focus for over fifty years. You do the work, learn, teach, keep painting, maybe win and award or two (or not), but you keep on painting. Lately, I seek out those views which are overlooked; not the usual scenic turn￾out icons. Though I love the slick-rock and towering red cliffs, I think I love the multiplicity of greys, siennas, pale ochres, the blue greens of Morrison hills, purples and faded umbers of the badlands even more. hey seem to be what I tend to paint these past years. Love of the desert, refuge and contemplation . . . and painting. It is an ongoing search for beauty and the desire to paint something “worthy.”

EMILY FOX KING grew up in Pasco, Washington. As the middle child in a large creative family, from a young age Emily found expression in the visual arts (in a family with seven children one really has to EXPRESS oneself to get any attention!) Her first teacher was her mother, an accomplished artist, Debra Fox. Career highlights include multiple solo exhibitions in her current state of Utah, as well as being included in the Anthropologie 2018 Fall Home Collection. Emily has exhibited nationwide including New York, California, Florida and Nevada and is collected by many, including the Chris and Janae Baird Collection of Contemporary Mormon Art. Much of her work explores notions of femininity, including domestic spaces and feminized objects. Currently she is working with floral imagery. “I think life, motherhood, womanhood, is a mixed bag of beauty, chaos, uncertainty, anger, and resignation, all in one. In the end it’s freaking gorgeousness! That’s what these florals are about” (Interview with Linda Hoffman Kimball, Co-Editor-In-Chief of Segullah.org). While keeping a rigorous studio practice, Emily also teaches painting and drawing at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Follow her on Instagram @emilyfoxking and view her website at emilyfoxking.com.

REBECCA WAGSTAFF {[email protected]} is an artist known for her realist botanic still life paintings in oil. Born in 1962 the eldest of eight children, she grew up in five different western states. She attended Brigham Young University, majoring in fine art. While working at a student job in the Book Repair unit of the library, she developed an interest in the work of Arno Werner, a German-born bookbinder, and moved to New York City where she both worked as a nanny and became Werner’s apprentice in Connecticut on the weekends. Returning to Utah she taught Traditional Hand Bookbinding for the BYU Department of Art where she renewed her acquaintance with artist Clay Wagstaff. They married and moved a few years later to Tropic, Utah—adjacent to Bryce Canyon N.P.—where they currently reside. Clay and Rebecca have two daughters, Hannah died in an accident at age 14. Miriam, an amazing violinist/violist is currently in her first year of college, which means her parents are no longer spending half of their time in northern Utah chauffeuring Miriam to lessons, orchestra, auditions, and performances. So they decided to turn their home in Tropic into a traditional Bed & Breakfast with a small Art Gallery in their living room and enjoy hosting guests from all over the world at RiverStoneInnandGallery.com

Paul spent seven years (1984-91) as senior exhibits designer at the Museum of Church History and Art, then moved to Brigham Young University where he helped plan the Museum of Art and then designed exhibits until his retirement in 2014. His greatest joy was working with other creative people to bring a project to fruition. He also taught undergraduate courses and honors seminars at BYU.