The Long X Arts Gallery hosts the late Williston artist Doug Engberg’s beautiful art on leather exhibit, featuring wildlife and landscapes of western North Dakota intricately burned and painted on large pieces of leather.

His show will open on November 3rd and run through December 29.
Stop in to view this beautiful work Mon-Sat. 10 am – 5 pm and join us for an open house (more information coming soon).

Visiting the gallery is free and open to the public!
In the lower level of the Long X Visitor Center
100 2nd Ave NW, Watford City, ND

More information on Doug and his work here

From the Artist:

“Loving to draw all my life there was nothing I wouldn’t try in the art world mediums. I have done oil paint, pencil drawing, and burning on wood.

But I decided to try burning leather to see how that will work, and now I hook on it. Start buying pieces of leather and stretching them over canvas it works but hard to get it flat and not to bounce. When I started glue leather on wood, and it work so well with the hard surface.

With each art piece I can see the small details that will work from burning deep for the bison fur to the light shading of the tee-pee smoke. It takes time and patience in do this, once the HOT tip touches the leather there is no turn back.

I get my ideas from magazine and the internet mixing one photo of the background to the second photo the main subject.

At first in my early work, I just did the burning on the leather and now I have been adding color from soft tints to heavy coats to bring them out or adding a color to their eyes, I starting to like this a little bit more to give the extra WOW factor.
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I hope you enjoy the art that I have created.”