Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24″ x 36″
Year: 2019
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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 16″ x 20″
Year: 2019
Price: $750
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Notes:
Painted this one for the Redgate Ranch Music Festival.
“Chromatic Water Theory 12: Rhythm and Melody”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24″ x 30″
Year: 2018
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Official Artwork for the 2019 Redwood Coast Music Festival
Painted live at the Eagle House in Eureka, CA. (But finished at home later)
“Hidden Hills”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 20″ x 16″
Year: 2018
“Keeping Time”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 30″ x 40″
Year: 2017
Official Artwork for the 2018 Redwood Coast Music Festival
Painted live at Mad River Brewing Company with Absynth Quartet
“Chromatic Water Theory #11: Drum Solo”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 30″ x 40″
Year: 2018
Notes:
Painted live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival 2018 at the Morris Graves Museum of Art
“Chromatic Water Theory #10: Under the Moon”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 30″ x 40″
Year: 2018
Notes:
Painted live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival 2018 at the Morris Graves Museum of Art
“Chromatic Water Theory #9: Harmonics”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 30″ x 40″
Year: 2018
Notes:
Painted live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival 2018 at the Morris Graves Museum of Art
“Chromatic Water Theory #8: Acoustic Wave”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 30″ x 24″
Year: 2017
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Notes:
Painted live at Wine by the Sea to benefit Friends of the Dunes
“Songbird”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24″ x 36″
Year: 2017
“Chromatic Water Theory VII: Chunk”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36″ x 36″
Year: 2017
Notes:
Much can be said of beautiful harmonies, but there is also a place in music for the dischord, the feedback, the reverb, the chunks of rawness strewn about from a creative process that values expression above technical prowess. Even the ugly shorepound is beautiful to the bodysurfers and boogie boarders.
This painting is another reminder that every song has its roots in water.
This series was created live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival inside the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The overall concept of the series was to explore the connections between music and water, through a set of shared geometric structures.
“Chromatic Water Theory VI: Platinum”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36″ x 36″
Year: 2017
Notes:
I painted this one during a Johnny Cash tribute set, while the painting (and occasionally my big fat head was projected on to a 30 foot screen behind the band). Slightly awkward, but hopefully a fun visual to compliment the music. Thinking of Johnny Cash and the music he produced, it got me thinking of vinyl records. Like a drop in a pool of still water, the rings emanating outward from that single point. (I know it’s a spiral really, but song by song with the little spaces between em, they’re circles alright?)
Those albums played the world over, resonating with listeners from all walks of life, reveal the power of music to speak to our souls.
Thank you John. Thank you.
This painting is another reminder that every song has its roots in water.
This series was created live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival inside the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The overall concept of the series was to explore the connections between music and water, through a set of shared geometric structures.
“Chromatic Water Theory V: Theory and Practice”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 18″ x 36″
Year: 2017
Notes:
While rhythm is undoubtedly a universal element, music is the realm of humans. As such it’s not the perfections that make it speak to us so deeply, it’s the imperfections. Listen to a beat machine produce a synthetic rhythm, perfect in repetition, but void of life. Then listen to a human drummer, full of nuance and subtly placed mistiming, but always coming back to where they started, like water lifting and falling as waves pass through. In theory perfection is the goal, but in practice it’s the imperfection, the unpredictability, the deviations from the established patterns that remind us we are alive.
This painting is another reminder that every song has its roots in water.
This series was created live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival inside the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The overall concept of the series was to explore the connections between music and water, through a set of shared geometric structures.
“Chromatic Water Theory IV: String Theory”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 18″ x 36″
Year: 2017
Notes:
Stringed instruments often contain a dizzying array of mathemetical geometries; the length and/or thickness of strings, the placement of frets, the bodies themselves. All of it designed to vibrate those strings at the right frequencies to produce harmonic sounds. But what is vibration, if not a wave? Reduce a wave to its mathematical base and you have a simple sine wave, an oscillation between two points at a regular frequency.
This painting is another reminder that every song has its roots in water.
This series was created live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival inside the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The overall concept of the series was to explore the connections between music and water, through a set of shared geometric structures.
“Chromatic Water Theory III: Strum”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 18″ x 36″
Year: 2017
Notes:
Sound upon sound, wave upon wave, a simple strum of a stringed instrument produces something that combines to a beautiful note. Sound is a wave after all, watch what happens when multiple waves collide, the result is usually something far beyond the sum of the parts. A synergy of moving water, a liquid chord in the key of H2O.
This painting is another reminder that every song has its roots in water.
This series was created live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival inside the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The overall concept of the series was to explore the connections between music and water, through a set of shared geometric structures.
“Chromatic Water Theory II: Resonate”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36″ x 36″
Year: 2017
Notes:
Many instruments have within their design a method of capturing, redirecting, focusing, and amplifying the otherwise ordinary sounds produced by whichever vibrating element they employ. When those vibrations bounce off chambers, refract around curving elements, they grow to a beautiful pitch, much like a wave as it approaches shallow water. Certain underwater topographies produce the most beautiful apparitions of moving water imaginable.
This painting is another reminder that every song has its roots in water.
This series was created live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival inside the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The overall concept of the series was to explore the connections between music and water, through a set of shared geometric structures.
“Chromatic Water Theory I: Percussion”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36″ x 36″
Year: 2017
Notes:
Percussion, it’s the foundation of music. It’s been here all along, discernible all around and within us, from water’s rhythmic waves to our own heartbeats pumping our saltwater life force through our bodies. From the basic repetition emerges increasing complexities, and with a human intellect at the helm becomes the very structure upon which song is built.
This painting is a reminder that every song has its roots in water.
This series was created live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival inside the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The overall concept of the series was to explore the connections between music and water.
“Creepy Fingers”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24″ x 36″
Year: 2016
Official Artwork for the 2017 Redwood Coast Music Festival
Painted live at the Redwood Curtain Brewery in Arcata, CA during live music sets from Kingfoot and Wild Iris.
“To Air is Human”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36″ x 36″
Year: 2015
“Passing Through V”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36″ x 36″
Year: 2015
“Airwaves”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 40″ x 30″
Year: 2015
“Acoustic Dunescape”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36″ x 36″
Year: 2015
“Photosynthesis”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36″ x 36″
Year: 2015
“Passing Through”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36″ x 36″
Year: 2014
Painted live at on stage during a Berel Alexander performance at the Benbow Summer Arts & Music Festival 2014
VIEW PRINT OPTIONS“Birdsong”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24″ x 24″
Year: 2013