"Baiting the Hook"
"Portrait in Tennis Shoes" Accepted in Anderson, SC Juried Show
"Breakfast"
My latest almost-finished painting is called "Breakfast." It is another in the large series of paintings I am making from photographs taken on a Myrtle Beach, SC pier. I should also post my "Birds Watching" so you can see my continued fascination with the birds and fishermen/
women who cut bait, eat their meals and fish on the pier everyday. The pier becomes a microcosm with its own food chain, its own mystery, its own dependency and relationships. I am fascinated and hope you'll find my paintings interesting as a result.
I am pleased to announce that my entry, "Mother and Child" has been selected for Artfields juried show in the city of Lake City, SC. If you'd like to learn more about Artfields, go here: www.artfieldssc.org --quite an ambitious project where vendors in the town have volunteered to host the 400 artworks selected. So while my entry will be displayed in the Hub, where people will go to register to vote for their favorite artwork, you can also find art professionally displayed in restaurants, barber shops, dress shop and a stable, to name a few. There will be 3 prizes totaling $100,000, an astronomical amount for an artist, to be sure. I'm excited to participate in a project that may help revitalize a rural community.
Mother and Child
When I attend the November Spring Maid Watermedia Workshops, I am drawn to the fishermen on the Spring Maid pier. I have done a series of paintings of the photographs I've taken. Whole families come out in their winter gear to fish, and I find it not unlike a play being performed for my benefit. I wanted to paint this little boy and his mother and call it "Mother and Child" so that my viewer can consider its implications of the nativity, the idea of fishermen, the whole layered possibilities of the premise of fishing--people's passion for pulling something unknown from the ocean. I'd love to hear your comments.
Look out Charleston. One of my "Hooked" Series is heading your way!
I am so excited to know that "Hooked: Three Generations" has been
sold and will hang in a home in Charleston, South Carolina. The buyer
has promised to send a picture when it's installed over a credenza in her
dining room. This painting was also selected to be in this year's York
County (SC) Annual Judged Competition. This painting is part of a
series of 6 paintings I made from photographs I took in Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina a few years ago.
Gone Fishing
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| "Hooked - Three Generations" |
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| "Hooked - A Helping Hand" |
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| "Hooked - The Morning of the Blue Heron" |
were from photos I took of people fishing off
a pier in South Carolina. I inadvertently lost
the originals when I posterized them while
using Photoshop. I was intrigued by the light
and shade that morning and the colors I saw.
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