Right now, as a musician and singer-songwriter as well as an artist, things have slowed down to a crawl. Whereas normally I would be booking shows, playing the blues with my band to happy dancing crowds, that is all gone!
As for making art, this downtime has been a path to finding inspiration in unlikely places and trying to find things that will give some joy and hopefully a laugh or smile to the viewer.
Here is a series of portraits that imagine people as both dogs and cats with their own peculiar personalities and hidden longings and agendas.
Self portrait: “My life as a dog”
Cry babies
He did what?
The watchers
I’ll believe it when I see it
Looking forward
Waiting for dogot
My partner Joe
You’re not the boss of me
Martha my dear
Lost and found
Pretty please?
The old fella
Bernard and Lucy
You look but you never see
My Uncle
Jimmy boy
Portrait of Diane as a dog
Portrait of Diane as a cat
Portrait of Heather as a dog
A baffling result
