Oquirrh Mountain, Utah Temple - Original Mixed-Media Art on Stretched Canvas

Oquirrh Mountain Temple began with a photograph I took during a spring visit to the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The temple is a stunning edifice, but what struck me that day was its sense of peace. I chose a perspective that allowed the architecture to become part of its surroundings rather than simply dominate them. The Temple blends into the landscape, yet remains forcefully present—quiet, luminous, and impossible to overlook.

Through digital painting, I emphasized that relationship between the structure and the natural world around it. Spring color, vegetation, light, and architecture move together throughout the composition, softening the boundaries between them while allowing the temple to retain its unmistakable presence.

For me, Oquirrh Mountain Temple is about presence without intrusion. It is a place of strength and permanence, but also of stillness and peace—a sacred structure that seems both set apart from and completely at home within the landscape.

This artwork is offered as a variable open edition canvas, individually hand-embellished and completed by the artist.