Jared Sanders-(b.1970) grew up in Kaysville, a small semi-rural town in Northern Utah.  He spent his youth exploring the canyons of the Wasatch Mountains near his home.  His love of drawing and painting the mountains and rural landscape of his small town began at an early age and he ambitiously hoped to one day become a professional artist.
    He attended Utah State University and studied under Glen Edwards, a prominent Utah artist and professor, who taught many of today's leading western artists.  Jared graduated from Utah State University in 1995 and in a few short years he had realized his dreams of becoming a professional artist.  His landscapes' strong compositions and structural approach complimented by his sudued pallet illustrating the often overlooked beauty of the rural west, have quickly gained favor in the eyes of galleries, collectors and publications.
     Jared was featured in Southwest Art Magazine's article, "21 and 31" in September of 2000.  In April of 2001 a feature article, "Introducing Landscape Painter Jared Sanders" was also published in southwest Art Magazine.  Since 1999, Jared has had 10 successful one man shows in Jackson Hole Wyoming, Sedona Arizona, Park City, Utah and Santa Fe, New Mexico.  He has place among the top 100 entries in the prestigious national Arts for the Parks competition in 1999 and 2000, winning the People's Choice Award in 2000.  Most recently, Jared was invited to show his work in the Artists For the New Century show at the Bennington Center for the Arts in Bennington, Vermont. 
     Jared's work is well recognized and appreciated for its unique style, approach and beauty.  Now living in a small town in Utah, Jared continues to celebrate the enduring forms of farmlands, hills, rivers and trees that he so intimately know and loves.