Joel Ostlind

Joel Ostlind was born in Wyoming, graduated from the college of agriculture at the University of Wyoming and for 14 years traveled the west working as a cowboy on big ranches. He married Wendy in Texas. They started a family in Montana and were back in Wyoming in time for their children, Emilene and Jake, to start school. Ostlind’s art progressed from sketching in the evening, a lifelong passion, to full time drawing, etching, and painting in a studio near Big Horn, Wyoming.