Some recent progress photos...

I'd like to share some recent progress photos.

I've been in the studio every single day for the last 2 months, working on numerous paintings. My exhibition schedule this year is busy, to say the least. I am participating in four exhibitions, three of which are solo shows.

The first solo will be my fourth annual June exhibition at the Elliott Fouts Gallery in Sacramento, California. I'm proud (and a little astonished) to say I'm working on painting number 15 of the 20 that will be in that show.

I'll share more info about the other three exhibitions in the coming months. But first I have to focus completely on painting.

 

So in the meantime, I'm going to disappear from the world of social media again and stick my nose back up to the easel.

I'm starting to wonder if my neighbors are aware that I rarely leave the house.

If it wasn't for my wife, I'd have no social life at all.

Group Show - George Billis Gallery, LA

Happy New Year!

I'm starting the year participating in a group show at the George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles from January 7 - February 11, 2012.

Antique Books I

30" x 30"  |  Oil/Canvas  |  2011

Available through the George Billis Gallery, LA

Antique Books II

30" x 30"  |  Oil/Canvas  |  2011

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Find the gallery — click here for a map. If you are in the LA area, please check out the gallery and paintings.

I am showing five new paintings featuring books. The two paintings above depict 17th and 18th century historical essay and natural history texts. Below are primary school texts from the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

Equality, The World of Today

18" x 36"  |  Oil/Canvas  |  2011

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Brave and Bold, The Early Modern World

18" x 36"  |  Oil/Canvas  |  2011

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Anything Can Happen, Down The Road

30" x 30"  |  Oil/Canvas  |  2011

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Antique Swedish Telephone

This past summer, I received this magnificent early Swedish telephone as a gift from a long time collector in California. It's a fantastic telephone and a great addition to my growing collection. I think it would look great painted along side some other telephones in a larger painting.

Antique Swedish Telephone
24" x 20"  |  Oil/Canvas  |  2011
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