Art Collection at the Colleyville Location

Our Colleyville location has an extensive Art collection including works by Sophie Brown, a highly respected Western artist, who uses bold color and striking brush strokes to convey the wild energy of horses and cowboys in motion. Though the forceful strokes give an impression of quick creation, her paintings, suffused with intensity, are the result of a pain-staking process. She studies photographs, anatomy books and her own horses.

Brown's deft and unusual way of brushing draws many admirers to her work.

Brown, who was born in Birmingham England and educated at the University of London and the University of Michigan, is now working on a series of paintings depicting cowboys in scenes of ranching life.

Other Artists that have work at our Colleyville location include Stephen Sabastian, Lajos Markos & Raymond Everett. A bronze by Frederick Remington and a collection of twelve accurate replicas of historic Texas Flags and maps are also featured at this location.

Stephen Sebastian, a painter who currently lives in Irvine, CA, often works in a variety of mediums. Strong design and use of light are fundamental for his work. Many of the mediums Sebastian uses in his color pallet have been custom created to help achieve the rhythm and flow of his realistic but very expressionistic finished work. Brushstrokes are apparent, but precise. Transparent glazing techniques help achieve the jewel-like quality in the finished pieces.

Raymond Everett was born in New Jersey in 1885, but he has deep Texas roots. He fell in love with Texas' beauty and its subject matter while studying for a degree in architecture from the University of Texas at Austin, where he would eventually head up the architecture department. In his spare time, Everett created Western scenes in multiple mediums, including paint and sculpture. He traveled all across the state, capturing the danger of the rodeo, the beauty of the hill country and the heart of everyday life here.

This series of paintings, created by Everett in 1912, once hung on the walls of Houston's famed Rice Hotel. Using rich blues, greens, browns and rusts, the pieces depict life in frontier Texas.

The artist Randy Peyton, a fourth-generation Texan, resides somewhere between the picturesque landscape of the Hill Country and dreamy state of Paris Impressionism. He even has a series of painting that incorporate Monet's lilypads into Texas scenes.

The self-taught artist – he designed marketing materials for a bank while painting in his spare time –developed an intense following among Texas art collectors. He has an incredibly disciplined approach to painting, often spending 12 hours a day in his studio.

Peyton's vibrant works often incorporate architecture, like the beautiful mission of San Antonio, as well as landscapes bursting with color from blue bonnets and other Texas flowers.