Ex-fireman and former teacher, Byron Birdsall has become a preeminent Alaskan watercolorist.
His award-winning paintings of frozen landscapes and haunting nightscapes are for many collectors the quintessential expression of ‘the last frontier.’
He received inspiration for his work from living and traveling throughout Africa,
Alaska,
India,
Italy, and
Japan. He is a noted painter of religious icons produced in acrylics, pearls, rhinestones, and gold leaf.
Since his first solo exhibition in 1967, Birdsall has had more than 50 one-man shows and in 1992 provided the artwork for a U.S. postage stamp. American Artist magazine has featured his work as well as on one of their covers. Birdsall originals are part of a great number of prestigious private and corporate collections including those held by Alaska Airlines, British Petroleum and the Russian Orthodox Church of Alaska. Each painting, he says, tries t
o engage the culture and make the world better. “With every brush stroke, I try to remember that 100 years from now, all that will be left is the art.”
He works from a studio in a log house on the edge of Sand Lake near Anchorage, dividing his time between sketching and painting, with trips to the field for stimulation. Sometimes the fields are within walking distance, sometimes far into Alaska's interior, often to his second home in the Pacific Northwest, and sometimes to those other exotic worlds of his book, “Byron Birdsall's Alaska and Other Exotic Worlds”.
Ex-fireman and former teacher, Byron Birdsall has become a preeminent Alaskan watercolorist. His award-winning paintings of frozen landscapes and haunting nightscapes are for many collectors the quintessential expression of ‘the last frontier.’ He received inspiration for his work from living and traveling throughout Africa, 
o engage the culture and make the world better. “With every brush stroke, I try to remember that 100 years from now, all that will be left is the art.”