Gary Niblett (American b. 1943)

Born and raised in Carlsbad, New Mexico and living with his wife, Monika in Santa Fe, Gary Niblett is a painter, primarily with oil, of western scenes especially Navajo and Pueblo Indians, cowboys on horses in landscape, and frontier genre.  He has also done paintings from his travels such as Streets of Warsaw and Women of Golondrinas, and during these travels exhibited work in Moscow, Taiwan, Beijing and the Royal Watercolor Society in London.

From birth, Niblett grew up with the American West as a part of his daily life. Recognizing his talent, local ranchers paid him to do portraits of his horses.  After high school graduation, he attended the Art Center School of Design* in California, and then spent eight years in Los Angeles with Hanna-Barbera* animation studios as a background and animation artist.  There he met his wife, Monika, and they maried in 1970.

Deciding to focus on western art, Niblett left commercial art in 1973.  He and his wife, Monica, returned to New Mexico where they live in an adobe style home.   In New Mexico, he has received much attention for the quality of his painting.  In 1990, he was named "Distinguished Calendar Artist" for New Mexico Magazine, and one of his oil paintings is in the collection of the New Mexico state capitol building.  He has also been featured in magazines such as International Fine Art Collector, Time, Saturday Review and New Mexico Magazine. 

In 1976, Niblett was voted into the Cowboy Artists of America*, painters and sculptors dedicated to representational western art in the tradition of Frederic Remington and Charles Russell.  In that organization's annual exhibitions, he has received special recognition including an Oil Painting Award, Silver, 1986; Water Solubles Award, Gold Medal: 1983, 2001, 2004; and Silver: 1982 and 1983.