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Sculptor and Denver resident Lawrence Argent is one of the West’s most beloved public artists. He gave the Colorado Convention Center its iconic sculpture, I See What You Mean, and more recently, he installed Leap, a giant red rabbit leaping toward a suitcase, in the Sacramento International Airport.

If you’ve ever strolled through Denver’s art district on Santa Fe the first Friday of the month, you’ve probably wandered into Access Gallery. You might have admired its captivating contemporary art, hung simply on white walls under perfectly placed lights, and assumed that it’s just another gallery in this cultural paradise.

Facing the Gore Range on the edge of the Ptarmigan Peak Wilderness, a thousand feet above the Blue River Valley, there stands a forest of spruce, fir and aspen sprinkled with wildflowers. It sounds like the perfect place for nature photographer John Fielder to perch his camera—but it’s actually where he’s decided to perch his Summit County home.

In 1982, Colorado Homes & Lifestyles published a story about the Polish-born, Colorado-based artist Witold-K. Thirty years later, we decided to check back in with the man who has achieved international fame for his work, but who remains relatively unknown in the city where he's had a studio and gallery since 1981-Denver.