Anton Nowels is an accomplished artist whose work has been exhibited on a regional as well as a national level.  He is both a Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America (OPA) and the American Impressionist Society (AIS), and recently won a Landscape Painting award at the Oil Painters of America (OPA) National Exhibition.  Nowels also participated in the Brinton Museum's Residency program in Big Horn, Wyoming.  As a workshop instructor at Scottsdale Artists’ School and at the Winslow Art Center, Anton Nowels teaches and explores color theory approaches employed by Charles Hawthorne, Henry Hensche, Sergei Bongart, and Josef Albers.  Teaching is also a big portion of Anton's painting process, having taught at the Sedona Art Center as well as workshops in Tennessee and in the Netherlands.  

 

At Arizona State University, Anton Nowels studied Interdisciplinary Art and explored contemporary art practices, including performance, installation, and video.  He earned scholarships to the Scottsdale Artists' School to study with figurative and landscape painter Ned Mueller, colorist Camille Przewodek, and portrait artist Romel de la Torre.  Nowels won Best in Show at the 2019 Arizona Plein Air Painters Juried Members Show judged by Mitch Baird. In 2018 he won Second Place at the Scottsdale Artists' School's Best and Brightest Show. Additionally, he won First Place at the 2017 Bisbee Plein Air Festival.  Anton Nowels has been practicing art since 2000. His first solo show was at age 24 on Grand Avenue in Downtown Phoenix. 

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Nowels has studied both contemporary and traditional fine art, and paints a variety of subjects while continuing to experiment with painting techniques.  Currently, he is working on a series of large-scale paintings that focus on both representation and abstract impressionism.  The Maynard Dixon Legacy Museum in Mt. Carmel, Utah, represents Anton’s work and has welcomed him as a guest artist at their Maynard Dixon Country events.  Mountain Trails Gallery Sedona is proud to now exhibit expressive and bold depictions of the West masterfully painted in oil by Anton Nowels.