A new piece showing at the Art Palm Springs with the George Billis Gallery LA. The fair runs from February 16 – 19, 2018.
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Finishing Touches
I’m adding the finishing touches to this piece which will soon be off to Los Angeles for my next exhibition at the George Billis Gallery. There’ll be a clean dozen paintings on view. I’m busy working on them now. I’ve got my work cut out for me.
Black Globe, 2017
A recent commission now hanging in its new home.
Smith-Corona Clipper
I found this Smith-Corona Clipper typewriter at Everything Old and now it is honoured in a simple and clean painting.
It can be found hanging at the Robert Lange Studios in Charleston, South Carolina along with the other typewriter in the case I posted last week.
Fresh off the easel.
This piece is fresh off the easel and awaiting varnishing before it heads off to the Robert Lange Studios in Charleston, South Carolina.
I’ve got several commissions in the works and a solo exhibition in Los Angeles in April 2018, so I have my work cut out for me this winter. It’s good to be busy.
Vest Pocket Kodak
Vest Pocket Kodak / 16 x 16 / oil on canvas, a little video of my process. Swipe ➡️ to see some details and an old ad for the camera from a century ago, it’s being handed off to a WWI soldier.
Thank You, Again
The big red Acorn gum machine’s little blue brother. As I have lamented before, I wish everyone looking at this on their screen could see it in person. The colour, the detail the subtle texture of the painted surface, all these vanish and flatten with the backlighting of the device you’re viewing.
Thank You
In 2009 I painted this big red Acorn gum machine – so it was time to visit it again. My motive to paint this is obvious – it’s a beautiful thing to behold. Also, Wayne Thiebuad painted gum machines and he’s an inspiration.
I’m more confident with details and relaxed with the time that it takes to focus. In 2009 I intentionally only painted a few gumballs. There is also the darker atmosphere. I have a much brighter studio now and the result shows in the paintings.
At once these paintings are both simple and complex – like a metaphor for all things in life.
Anything Can Happen
“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.”
― Lao Tzu
The Interpretation of Dreams
“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers