Color and light. Darrell's acrylic paintings express his love affair with the desert southwest in the United States. His work tends to express the clear, hard-edged drama of the light in Arizona and New Mexico, and the sheer joy of big, bold color in that light. Having spent the last 50 years hiking and hunting in Central Arizona, Sheppard prefers the intimate, out-of-the-way scenes and subjects in the Southwest, leaving the Grand Canyon, Sedona, and Monument Valley to other artists. Darrell's work has been described as expressive realism. He wants viewers...more
