Those of you who saw my last painting exhibition may remember a painting called The Cuckoo and another called She Warbles as She Flies… The titles of those paintings come from a song often played in the clawhammer banjo style. We think of it as… Read More
Here’s an oil painting called Bloom from 2001 from a lengthy series I called The Blackthorn Paintings. This one is around 17 inches square.
Here is a painting I made in the mid-90s, after a fly fishing trip to Montana with my friend East Texas Red. This is a good-sized painting, 6 feet or maybe even a little wider, oil and spray enamel on canvas. It’s called Shack Nasty.… Read More
I’m trying to figure out just when I made this painting. It must have been sometime in the 90s but I don’t remember what year. I had been out west and met a friend of Candy Minx, a fascinating fellow named Pete, who gave us… Read More
I made this painting a number of years ago – I would have to check the back of it to tell you the exact date – maybe 2005? I’ve never exhibited it, but I did post of a photo of it here once before. Evidence… Read More
After university (I graduated in 83), I started making paintings in a shared studio behind a convenience store in The Junction, way back before The Junction was a cool-hipster-artsy area. That was a good place to start out, but I wanted to find a place … Read More
Here is a painting I made back in the 80s, called The Architect. This one hung in a friend’s house for a number of years, until one day he gave it back to me. I still really enjoy this painting and I’ve hung onto it… Read More
Exhibiting a group of paintings marks a natural end to what I think of as a cycle of work. For me that cycle really ends a couple months before the exhibition. Yesterday was the last day of my show at Yumart, Ways of the World,… Read More
As regular visitors to this blog know, I’ve been cooped up in the house since March 9 when I slipped on a step in front of the house and broke and dislocated my ankle. Before yesterday I had only been out for a doctor’s visit… Read More
Fortunately, these days I paint with oils – impasto paint built up over time in layers. I say fortunately because I stopped painting for my upcoming exhibition early in the year to allow for plenty of drying time – meaning my exhibition was ready to… Read More
27th Street 