Welcome to the home page of artist Mike Mahon. Mike's studio is located in Amarillo,Texas, the heart of the Texas Panhandle.
Mike is a master of colorful, realistic portraiture of people and landscapes of the Southwest, especially the mountains, rivers and plains of Texas and New Mexico. His impressionistic, representational and award winning oil and pastel landscapes and portrait paintings can be viewed in our art gallery. Mike specializes in traditional family portraits and portraits of children.
Click here for information on Mike's Art Workshops, Art Classes, Art Shows and other fine art events. Mike provides art instruction in pastel and oil workshops for studio and plein aire artists all over the country. He would be glad to present a program to your art club or art museum or teach workshops on his systematic step-by-step painting process or do a painting demonstration from a photo. As a master of his craft, Mike also loves to demonstrate figure and portrait painting using a live model. Mike excels in teaching classical art principles while creating drawings and paintings for his audience and students. Mike is represented in galleries in Austin and Fredericksburg, Texas and Albuquerque, Ruidoso, Red River and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
To see a day-by-day photo essay of a recent Plein Aire workshop in Red River, New Mexico, given by Mike, click here. The people and landscapes of Northern New Mexico near Taos and Santa Fe are frequent subjects of Mike's art work. If you would like to have a workshop in your area, contact Mike about the arrangements and special discounts available. Click on the Events Calendar button for more information.
