2010 County Council Award.
Lylette Willoughby’s oil on canvas landscape “Fall at Weber Canyon” beautifully captures the silence of the mountainside. With an eye for detail, Lylette renders grasses of browns bowing
to the wind as golden leaved quakies stand tall. It is an inviting scene of pristine wilderness, which calls the viewer to roam; an alpine lake shimmers, stands of conifers are wrapped into the
hillside, and the mountain peaks gently meet clouds and sky. Painted of Weber Canyon East of Oakley, Lylette captures the stillness of a land that is always changing.
Love of art and love of place converge in the work of Lylette Willoughby. Born and raised in Coalville, she would often ride the mountains of the Weber with her father, a sheepherder for
Stillman’s. She remembers, “Where Stillman’s gate is now there is an old corral to the east that was where the first head of sheep were started to head for the top of the mountain by summer.”
A childhood love of art was later developed through lessons with Carol France and Touch of France Art Studio in Coalville. Lylette completed her first painting in 1986 and as she would say
“has just kept painting."
