BY KAREN BOSSICK

Jackson Hole, Wyo., photographer Tuck Fauntleroy has taken landscape in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks that was scared by wildfire and turned it into something beautiful, elegant, even meditative in his “Burn” series.

Hailey artist Theodore Waddell and James Cook are showcasing their dual interpretations of the western landscape at Gail Severn Gallery. Hailey artist Karen Jacobsen, who got her start as a scientific illustrator, is showcasing her plein air interpretations of local panorama.

And Steve Jensen is helping Yanna Lantz to celebrate her first anniversary as owner of Friesen+Lantz with imaginative glass works and wood carvings that capture the spirit of journeying ships before he heads to a new exhibition next month at the Larson Museum in Yakima.

You can partake in this and more during the February Gallery Walk from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, at various galleries in Ketchum.

• Gilman Contemporary, 661 Sun Valley Road, is featuring Tuck Fauntleroy’s “Burn” series, which Fauntleroy shot from the air flying overhead in small single-engine airplanes and from the ground.

  “I like to think of the winter season as a time for the land itself to rest. Zero human activity, the silence of falling snow in one of the most remote places on earth is enchanting and reflective,” said Fauntleroy, whose work has been published in such publications as “Conde Nast Traveler,” “SKI,” “The Fly Fish Journal” and “Town & Country.”

  “Hopefully the viewer finds the beauty that results from the juxtaposition of the violent event that transformed the environment and the resulting aesthetic. In that space, there's hope of discovering a healing element that a landscape at rest is pristine and peaceful--it inspires promise,” he added.

• Hemmings Gallery, 340 N. Walnut Ave., is showing sculptures by local sculptor Wes Walsworth and Christopher Gibson, along with paintings by eff Juhlin, Deb Bohrer, Valerie Stuart and Phil Haleen and monotypes by Ricardo Mazal, Gary Komarin and Monique Van Genderen.

  Walsworth, a furniture designer and builder, has created rustic modern totems using one-of-a-kind materials that date back to the homestead era of the early 1900s.

  And Christopher Gibson says his work is influenced by the remote landscapes he explores, with the layer of glass powders he uses to create his work stimulating a physical and mental connection of the elaborate and subtle lines, colors and textures found in those places.

• Kneeland Gallery, 271 First Avenue North, will display the beauty of the mountain landscapes of the Northwest within its walls using works by Neal Philpott, John Horejs and Douglas Aagard.

  Horejs, who lived for years in the Magic Valley, is one of the gallery’s longest standing artists. After painting an undercoat of red to convey a sense of warmth, he creates his stunning mountainscapes with just seven colors plus white.

  Realist painter Neal Philpott seeks to capture the ephemeral nature of the landscape with paintings that feature a meandering road, a distant fence line or a farmhouse nestled in trees. And Douglas Aagard draws on the mountain pines and cedars of the Utah landscape as his source of inspiration.

• Gail Severn Gallery, 400 N. 1^st Ave., is featuring new works by Theodore Waddell and James Cook. Waddell, who lives north of Hailey, has an impressionistic stylistic approach to painting cattle and Western landscapes that’s become iconic across the Western states and beyond. He and his wife recently completed another in their series of Tucker books based on their Bernese Mountain dogs. Copies of “Tucker Plays the Back Nine” will be available at the gallery.

  James Cook brings scenes from nature to life with impasto brush strokes on canvas. His style is impressionistic with vibrant colors that create colorful panoramas that awaken the senses.

• Also on display: Carolyn Olbum's sculptures of discarded tree limbs, rotten roots and dried vines that tell a story of regeneration. And abstract painter Raphaelle Goethals' signature layered encaustic and sophisticated minimalist pieces.

• Friesen+Lantz, 320 1^st Ave. N., is showcasing two dozen works of Steve Jensen’s that encompass everything from glass works to paintings wood carvings--all using material that he’s found walking the beaches near his studio in Seattle.

  “I come from a family of Norwegian boat builders and fishermen who hail from Bergen and who fished in the Bering Sea,” he said. “But in today’s world with overfishing and other problems, it’s easier to make art than to be a fisherman. As for using found objects, I can’t clean up the world, but I can clean up my little beaches.”

• Anderson Architecture, 320 1^st Ave. N. above Friesen+Lantz Gallery, will showcase plein air western landscapes of Karen Jacobsen, a plein air artist living in Hailey.

  Jacobsen started out as a scientific illustrator with a bachelor in Fine Arts. She documented archeological digs in Jordan and other Middle Eastern countries and she’s worked as an underwater illustrator on deep sea expeditions.

  “I had far more room to do illustrations working at the bottom of a canyon in Petra than I did looking through a microscope underwater,” said Jacobsen, who has been invited to a juried show in Boise in mid-May. “One of my illustrations on a carved column in Petra showed that what they thought was something else was actually an elephant. With plein air I’ve learned to make notes rapidly, as lighting and other things change quickly when you’re working outside.”

• Sun Valley Museum of Art, 191 5^th St. E., is continuing its Color of Sound exhibition, which features paintings, drawings, sculptures and immersive installations created by artists who perceive sound as a color or shape.
• MESH Gallery, 420 4^th St. E., features Jeffery Lubeck’s photographs of the Sawtooth Mountains and other local scenes.
• Jerry Hadam, 360 East Ave. in The Courtyard, is showcasing lithographs by local artist Jack Weekes, known for the poster work he does for the Boulder Mountain Tour, Homegrown Film Festival and other events. The gallery also features colorful and unusual works by other Northwestern artists.
• Mountain Images Gallery, 360 East Ave., features James Bourret’s stunning photographs of such local scenes as the Boulder Mountains to southwestern deserts.
• Broschofsky Galleries, 360 East Ave., features the imaginative staged photographs of David Yarrow and works by other contemporary Western artists.