Award winning artist Mike Callahan is a fourth generation Nevada native who counts himself privileged to have grown up in one of the most beautiful places on earth, the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains near Reno, Nevada where he still lives today. “The topography of the area in which I live is simply phenomenal; one can go from the high desert to mountainous alpine settings in less than an hour. It is this beautiful and varied landscape that ends up being the subject for a vast majority of my paintings.” However, looking through the paintings on Mike’s website, one will quickly see that the Sierra landscape isn’t the only subject Mike typically paints. He also enjoys painting Western themes as well as figurative and portraits. There is also a great color harmony throughout Mike’s paintings. While the colors in his paintings run the full spectrum of color seen in nature, harmony is maintained by him limiting himself to only three colors plus white on his palette. Instead of referring to this as a limited palette, Mike thinks of it as an unlimited palette as he has not found any color he desires to use that he can’t create from those primary colors. Mike’s work has been featured in numerous solo, group, and juried shows on local, regional and national levels and has won numerous awards nationally.