I started this one in the early days of the pandemic. It is both a very personal and universal painting (I hope) . I didn’t intend for it to go here. It was supposed to be a simpler painting of an abandoned house. The child and the balloon were spontaneous, and demanded to be added. […]
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“A Storm is Brewing” won an honorable mention at this year’s Henderson County Arts Council’s “Bring Us Your Best” exhibition. The prize was a gift certificate for art supplies. You know that didn’t last! He returns home on August 19. I do miss my bull!
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I haven’t pulled out the oil kit in nearly a year. The convenience of the designer’s gouache and sketchbook has been addictive and i’m more inclined to practice. Most of the sketches I’ve done since the beginning of the moving process last August have been mediocre at best, but in the last month, I’m enjoying […]
Continue ReadingPersonal Symbols & Shapes
It is primitive. It is a part of the root of all human communication. Symbols. We as humans communicate through symbols and understanding is created based on the common agreement within a culture to what those symbols mean. But as individuals, we have our own understanding of symbols, shapes that have particular meaning to us. […]
Continue ReadingBack in the Studio
After two years of chaos and only the great outdoors for a studio, I finally have a small space to work in. It’s temporary, hopefully I’ll have a larger one in a year, but any consistent space is glorious! But space isn’t everything… With so much time and so many changes, the artist has changed […]
Continue ReadingRemembering Frank Cooper
Cooper’s Falls is a famous near ghost town with buildings that throw back to the 1940s and beyond. With old style gas pumps and a brick general store, it stands out at night lit by a single string of lights that cross the county road. And until this past week, there was the indomitable and […]
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