Micro documentary filmed outside my Ohio studio by filmmaker Kenneth Bauer.  I couldn't have dreamed of a better video.  I'm so thankful to have my vision and purpose captured to share. 

Collector envy

Collectors have got to be the most fabulous eccentric people of all time.  Here's Chicago's famous collector, the late Muriel Newman. Timeless, extravagant and wonderful.  <3 

It was such a pleasure to stop in and visit Kayli at Greenville South Carolina's Gallery Seventeen.
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I'm looking forward to working on a new large scale piece for the gallery, but I still want to find an art supply store that carries large stretchers here!  Heavy duty 8 foot-ish?  anyone?  I'm not a big fan of ordering online and getting stuck with damaged or inferior products...  I may just have to make a trip to Atlanta!

I'm all stocked up on paint, and hoping to participate in next Thursday's "Rock out Hunger" as a demonstrating artist...

What a great feeling to have another corporate scale painting placed in a collection.
This painting, "Another Sky" was sold to Tucker Ellis law firm in Cleveland through the Bonfoey gallery.
An Emily Dickenson poem is embedded in the texture, and reads like this:

"There is another sky,...

Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields—
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where not a frost has been;
In its unfading flowers
I hear the bright bee hum:
Prithee, my brother,
Into my garden come!"

And with gratitude, I have been paid just in time to send my son off to another year at SCAD. (Savannah College of Art and Design)  Paying it forward!

Dock of the Bay

 

 

Dock of the Bay
60" x 60"

This painting is the first piece completed in my West New York studio.  It's a fairly large piece and I worked steadily on it while watching a Mad Men marathon on Netflix.  It was a really hot week, and I blasted the fan and drank tons of water.  I haven't seen the painting in over a month, and I'm looking forward to getting back and showing it at the Southampton Festival of the Arts on labor day weekend!

Fight the Good Fight

Fight the Good Fight
72" x 48"
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