Pam Price & Dreamcatcher II

Pam Price took home DREAMCATCHER II to Kansas City, Mo. recently. The painting fits her cheerful personality and will fit right in with her home's classic cottage style.

Pam was a fellow art director at Brown Shoe Company with me. She is a good friend and has wanted to purchase one of my works for some time.

Pam was recently commissioned to paint a series of 36x36 canvases for her daughter and son-in-law's very successful gourmet sandwich shop in Kansas City. The pair designed the restaurant from top to bottom. The newspaper's food critic was impressed and wrote the restaurant up in an article for the Kansas City Star. He used words like "unique" "tasty menu" "a winner".

Here's a preliminary sketch of her first canvas.

Jenifer and her husband are opening another restaurant with different theme in the future. To which Pam will paint a new theme of canvases for that restaurant.

She is very happy to get back to her fine arts roots. Bravo to my multi-talented friend!

Henry David Thoreau said, "I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Barb's "HOMAGE" is displayed

I always feel priviledged to go into a collector's home to photograph my work as they have chosen to display on their walls. "HOMAGE" has found a wonderful place to live in Barb's living room. Barb kids me that the only thing I could have done differently in painting "HOMAGE" would be to have signed my name "JACKSON POLLOCK." True, I have his demeanor and outlook on life. That's about it. Pollock was a genius and changed the way American painters thought about expressing themselves. Thanks for the compliment, Barb. (Click on the photo below to view a larger shot of the lliving area.)

"There is no accident, just as there is
no beginning and no end." -- Jackson Pollock

ROTARY CLUB Fundraiser

"Earth laughs in flowers."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson




I donated "Delight From the Garden" to this year's Fairview Heights Rotary Club Fundraiser. I painted this piece a few years ago. It reminds me of the gaiety of spring and summer just around the corner. Brenda Wagner is pictured holding the piece in the lobby of The Bank of Edwardsville, where she is branch manager. Brenda is a co-manager of this year's fundraiser and passionate about raising money for Rotary Club causes.