Trent Gudmundsen (born 1978 in California, USA) grew up in a small Utah farming community where he began oil painting at the age of 14. He later attended college on a full-tuition art scholarship, but the artist frequently found himself painting in the nearby fields and canyons instead of attending his classes. Trent left school to forge his own artistic path and soon thereafter met and married Lorajean and they settled in Cache Valley (Utah/Idaho). That same year, Southwest Art magazine recognized Trent's potential in their annual "21 Under 31" article. (Later, the magazine would feature Trent in a 6-page feature [in August 2010]).

Trent's work has now been recognized with top awards on a national level including at the American Impressionist Society National Exhibition (NY, NY. 2019), two Oil Painters of America National Exhibitions (2003 & 2009), and the National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society's "Best of America" Exhibit (2019).

Inspired largely by European and Soviet impressionists and realists, Gudmundsen's paintings of people, animals, and landscapes are traditional in theme, but painted in what amounts to be a very contemporary approach, often simplifying parts of the painting down to just graphic blocks of color, and other times by subduing and "de-constructing" the backgrounds or subjects until they become almost dreamlike in quality. Gudmundsen seeks in his work to be ever-more accurate while also tantalizing the viewer with interesting edges and brushwork.

 
Trent and Lorajean and their 6 children live in Idaho in a farmhouse that Trent built with his own hands. His art studio is attached to the back of the house, with a door that's always open.