Artists
Shane Clouse is a singer/songwriter born and raised in Missoula, Montana. The youngest of eight children, Shane began his performing career singing on the fireplace hearth of his family’s farm house. That early encouragement from his family inspired Shane to study the performing arts and now Shane has taken his Montana Americana music around the world. Shane now resides in Lolo, MT with his wife Kelly. Shane is a passionate supporter of agriculture and the outdoors and is honored to be chosen the official troubadour for the MWF for the Montana Matters campaign.
Cynthie Fisher of Hamilton, Montana, has been painting full-time for 25 years, concentrating mainly on depicting unique animal behaviors and interactions learned from a lifetime of studying and observing wildlife.
Cynthie has a degree in zoology, a vital field of study for her choice of artistic interpretations. She also enjoys avian taxidermy. Her favorite activity is big game hunting; she has hunted all over North America, and traveled to Africa fourteen times, as well as Russia, Central Asia, Turkey, South America, Australia and Europe. The reference she gathers while hunting and on photography excursions is invaluable in her artwork, and is reflected in her choice of subject matter concentrating on birds and mammals.
• Winner of fourteen state duck stamp contests, • Ten-time featured artist for Ducks Unlimited, • Five-time feartured artist for RMEF, • 2001 Rocky Mnt. Elk Foundation Artist of the Year, • 2002, 2008 Mule Deer Foundation Artist of the Year, • 2008 MN Whitetail Artist of the Year, • Cover artist for Cabelas catalog, Safari Club International, • North Light Book author, • Member of the Society of Animal Artists, • Featured Artist Dallas Safari Club 2011
For more information on shows, galleries and available prints and paintings, please email: Cynthie Fisher or visit her website at: Visit Cynthie's Website.
Sven Lindauer has been painting and sculpting professionally for over 25 years; he has traveled extensively and exhibited his work around the globe. Sven's artwork is in many museum and private collections both at home and abroad.
Sven was the official historical artist for the U.S. Marshal Service Museum and National Geographic television. Although he is known for painting various subjects, he is now focusing on world wildlife themes.
He is also an accomplished horseman, certified personal trainer, and nine-year television host for Wyoming’s “Discover Jackson Hole” on cable television. Sven is excited to be a part of this groundbreaking campaign and has graciously donated his time and talent to help ensure that Montana Matters for all. Visit Sven's Website.
Tobin Capp’s sculptures are a unique reflection of his western lifestyle. He is a third generation Montanan, descended from an adventurous great-grandfather who pioneered the West. Tobin, like his great-grandfather, was called to adventure. With no frontiers left to tame, the rodeo arena stole his heart at an early age.
It was determination that led him through the ranks of high school rodeo, college rodeo, and a ten year professional bull riding career. While rodeoing for the University of Montana and attending their fine arts school, Tobin met rodeo judge, sculptor, and foundry owner, Bob Burkhart. It was a pivotal point in Tobin’s art career.
“The University art program was not structured to teach what I wanted to learn. I was one semester away from a degree in fine arts when I spent three days at a sculpting school with Bob and artist Jeff Wolff. In those three days, I discovered a new medium that I really enjoyed. I returned to Missoula, switched to the College of Business, and pursued my art education from people who were making a living at it.”
Tobin Capp is considered a pure artist in the world of bronze art as he is involved in every phase of his pieces from the creating of the clay originals to the molding, casting, and marketing. He is mentored by sculptors Bob Burkhart, Jeff Wolffe, and Mary Michaels, all of whom have been pivotal in Tobin’s quest to produce works that depict the natural movement of wildlife.
Tobin’s art is also heavily influenced by his passion for nature and the wilderness. He spends an average of 100 days per year in the outdoors and says, “Woodsmanship is a tradition of my family and is the obligation of each generation to pass down to the next. I draw the majority of my inspiration from my time in the field.”
Terry Heffernan is a San Francisco-based photographer and film director. As a large-format still-life specialist, he has produced award-winning photographs for national advertising campaigns, corporate annual reports, and prestigious design and photography publications. He has exhibited in several major museums in the United States. Along with his interpretative photographs of collections in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, the Peabody Museum, and the American Museum of Fly Fishing, Heffernan has produced a photographic series of American icons and a portraiture study called "The Last Traveling Side Show in America."
Heffernan is also in demand as a film director, producing TV commercials with an emphasis on food and automobiles, as well as corporate films.