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ABOUT MY ART

I've been an artist since I began finger-painting in kindergarten, my enthusiasm continually growing way past graduating from Old Dominion University's art program in the Early 1970s. In 1974 one of my paintings, Plant & Dresser, (see below) took First Place Painting in the prestigious Stockley Gardens Annual Ghent Arts Festival. In that same show, I also won both First Place, Photography and Second Place, Drawing. One year later, another one of my oil paintings, D (see below), was accepted by the Tidewater Artist's Association, 23rd Annual Biennial Irene Leach Exhibition and displayed in the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, May-June 1975. During that same period, I founded the Tidewater Picture Company, a custom photographic processing laboratory specializing in high-end custom printing and film developing services. Concurrently, I instructed advanced, beginning, and intermediate photography classes at the Tidewater Community College, Chesapeake, Virginia. These three disciplines -- painting, drawing, and photography -- eventually slammed headlong into years of experience as a free-lance graphic artist. A perfect marriage of techniques and technologies. The end product is what you see here. I've been around for a while, and -- by golly, I'm proud of it. I hope you like what you see. 

Fine Art Limited Editions Coming SOON!

"Fern One", Oil on Masonite (2004)

"Beet & Brick", Oil on Masonite (1978)

"Dancer", Ink, Stain & Vanilla on Paper
4-Way "Windowsill" Oil on Canvas (2002)

2- Way "Reflections" Oil on Raw Canvas

 (1975) Can be Hung Either Way

 

 

"Garden Space" Oil on Canvas"
 

"Garden", Oil on Canvas (1976)

 --from the collection of Carolyn Martin

"Fern Two", Oil on Canvas Panel (2003)

"Grass Seed 1" Oil on Masonite (2003)

"Grass Seed 1" Revisited (2009)
 

 

"D", Oil on Canvas, 4'x5', (1975)
Tidewater Artist's Association, 23rd Biennial Exhibit, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, May-June 1975
--from the collection of Douglas Welch, New York City
 

"Plant & Dresser", Oil on Canvas (1974)

1st Place Painting, 1st Annual Ghent Arts Festival (now Stockley Gardens Ghent Art Festival), Norfolk, Virginia. An outstanding 36x36" wall hanging and conversation piece.
  "Vine Plant" Mixed Disciplines (2009)  
     
20-Minute Paintings

"Inside the Fishbowl" Oil & Enamel on Masonite (circa 1979)

One day I walked into my living room and realized I'd become so familiar with the artwork hanging on my walls that I no longer paid attention to them. In my mind, that's not what art should be about:  Art should constantly confront, and one should learn something new, see something different with each confrontation. A fresh glimpse away from the ordinary.

Just for the heck of it, I arbitrarily stepped up to one of the paintings and turned it upside down. Bingo, it was like I had slipped into a totally different room -- or, perhaps stumbled down a wonderful rabbit hole. I flip-flopped every painting in the room regardless of subject matter. Upside-down portraits hung side-by-side with topsy-turvy landscapes. Later that evening, I walked to my studio and began painting an image that was intended to be hung in any direction. It was a challenging experience.

I call these paintings "20-Minute Paintings", because I learned to force myself to rotate the canvas every 20 minutes while actively painting on them. In the old days I used a chess-game timer set to 20 minutes. Then one day it was stolen along with several still-wet paintings. Maybe by a harried rabbit looking for more than a timepiece. Go figure.

At any rate, "Inside the Fishbowl" is one of my earliest 20-Minute, 4-Way paintings. A simple twist in any direction and one's living environment is immediately transformed. Over and over again. A wonderful conversation piece.
 
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