Dan Allnutt has elevated the ancient art of woodburning to a new high standard. His original woodburnings capture the nostalgia of the Old West in sepia-like appearance. Raised on a ranch in the heart of the Colorado Rockies, his life-long love of our rich western heritage is reflected in his renderings of ranching and mining scenes from the 19th Century.

Each work is an original. All are created by hand with the gliding motion of a woodburning iron over common pine. Each work is framed with rough-cut pine and is ready to hang. Knot-holes, cracks and warpage are inherent in this rustic medium.

Dan has created a new genre of art: images burned on planks of beetle-killed pine. The marble appearance comes from fine sanding and polishing of the multi-colored lumber. Dan explains that the infestation of beetles causes a variety of colors to appear in a tree trunk—mostly a blue-grey tint, but sometimes hues of green and red. "God creates the background and I apply a simple silhouette of a subject," says Dan. The "planks" for his art are custom-milled from beetle-killed pine trees harvested in the nearby Collegiate Range of the Rocky Mountains.

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