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The Art Shop Gallery is home to some of the finest Alaskan artists you will find. Please scroll down to learn more about them and their art.

Alaska mourned the loss of our treasured artist, Byron Birdsall, in December, 2016.

He and his art have brightened the Art Shop Gallery for over 20 years.

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We plan to continue to share his work with our customers for as long as possible.

The watercolor paintings of Byron Birdsall are distillations of reality, scenes reduced to their basics with the integrity of the subject undiminished.

In Birdsall's hands, light takes on a thousand forms, whether inspired by the relentless vertical rays of the East African coast, a hazy palpable dawn over Samoa, or the silent light of the winter Northland that illuminates but does not warm.

It is this essential aspect of light that is at the heart of Birdsall's  art.

Byron Birdsall's paintings are included in the collections of a number of museums and public institutions, hang in corporate board