Michigan Campfire Print

The paintings are created with acrylic under painting and the finished with high quality oil paint on canvas. Each semi-autobiographical "story" revolves around a re-occurring character, "Mr. Tawdry". In each painting he is presented as a businessman in a dark suit with a green necktie and a fedora hat. He represents people and events in my life that I needed to persevere. The woman characters in the imagery appear visually different and yet represents a unified perspective. They are strong, beautiful, empowered, and appear disconnected in many ways to the ultimate despair and sometimes demise of Mr. Tawdry. The visual environments surrounding the characters are nonsensical, colorful and humorous, inspired my various places I have experienced in my many travels. There is a sense of nostalgia within the imagery as I draw inspiration from the amazing styles of the 1920s,30s and 40s.