Wildhorse Gallery

Richard Galusha grew up riding and showing horses on his family’s ranch in West Texas. He has developed a love and understanding of horses, which he has expressed in his art from a very early age. His family moved to Boulder, CO in his early teens. Since then he has traveled throughout the world painting in the Far East, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, England, Greece, France and Africa. During the summer of 1990 he went on an African safari hunt to Tanzania and Kenya where he studied and painted the wildlife, natives, and landscape. In the summer of 1996 he traveled to Greece and painted a variety of subject matter on the islands of Mykonos and Santorini. He also painted the English countryside during the summer of 1997,and in 1998 traveled back to Greece and also took a trek in Nepal. Spring of 1999 he traveled to Paris. In June of 2000 he and his wife Shirley traveled to paint in Botswana and Zimbabwe, Africa.

In 1995 Richard was awarded signature membership in the Oil Painters of America. During the summer of 1991, Richard received an individual fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Steamboat Springs Arts Council to study plein air painting in the Yucatan. He received another fellowship from the NEA and SSAC in 1994 to study with Richard Schmid and Thomas Buechner in Loveland, CO. He also has studied and painted with many other artists, including Zhang Wenxin, Clyde Aspevig, Harley Brown, Ned Jacob, Ted Goerschner, Ray Vinella, Bill Reece, David Leffel, Don Stone, Jim Norton, and Ron Riddick.

Richard’s real love is plein air and portrait painting, as well as western genre. He enjoys painting landscapes near his home in the Hahn’s Peak/Steamboat Lake area and taking painting trips with his artist wife, Shirley Stocks, and their dog, Zorn, to various locations around the country. He has shown in many local, regional and national shows and his works are in private collections throughout the United States. His work can also be seen at G.C. Lucas Gallery in Indianapolis, IN. He and his wife own the Wild Horse Gallery of Steamboat Springs.