Will Johnstone is a Contemporary Abstract American Artist painting in his studio in the West Highlands of Denver, Colorado.

I moved from New Mexico to Denver in 1994. I spent a lot of time exploring downtown Denver, a wonderfully compact and knowable city center. This was years before the Denver Art Museum had contracted Daniel Libeskind to design the Fredrick Hamilton Building expansion. I painted "Celebrating Denver" that first fall, and called it then "First Impressions of Denver". I exploded a hyperbolic parabola into the sky, extended cubic crystalline buildings at an angle into the blue, and thrust a spire up where I thought there ought to be one. Today, a little over ten years later, it seems this might all have been just a little bit of a glimpse of the future. Now, the Extension to the Denver Art Museum negotiates the sky, the Denver Convention Center thrusts its angular roof toward Speer Blvd., and the Denver Millennium Footbridge punctuates the Denver skyline. Isn't that what I painted in 1994?

References:Denver Art Museum | Daniel Libeskind | Fredrick Hamilton Building | Extension to the Denver Art Museum | Denver Convention Center | Denver Millennium Footbridge