Ron Rencher was born in St. George, Utah, and spent his early years on the family’s ranch north of the town in the Pine Valley Mountains. Rencher credits those early years as being critical to his lifelong love of nature, which led him into landscape painting. He started painting in oils during his junior-high years, pursuing art throughout his secondary education, and earned a BA in fine art at Southern Utah University, graduating in 1975. In his early career, Rencher painted southern Utah landscapes, then moved Taos in 1987. Nature and its living elements have always been a source of inspiration. He believes that “any artist who is devoted to realism is obligated to work from life, or nature, whether the subject is landscape, figurative, or still life.” He hopes that his art conveys the beauty of nature to the viewer, and raises awareness and appreciation of the natural world and the spiritual connection that we all have to the world we inhabit.  

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