In July of 2022 longtime friends invited Elizabeth and I to visit Pecan Plantation in Granbury, TX. She told us a little about the community and wanted to commission me to do a couple of paintings. When Elizabeth and I arrived we were instantly enthralled. Nearly encircled by the Brazos River, the community is intertwined with 1500 acres of Pecan Orchards, golf courses, an air strip, marina, and more. It has the amenities of modern life but everywhere you go nature surrounds you. I would wake each morning and walk through the orchards at sunrise and end the day with sunset along the Brazos River which inspired this little gouache painting. 

"Brazos River Sunset", gouache on paper, 8" x 10", 2024. It'll arrive well packed and ready to frame.

*** I’m a SETX Texas based artist finding inspiration in the everyday beauty of the world. I’ve been a public-school teacher for 20+ years. I’m also a musician, a husband, a father, and an animal lover. I’ve been fortunate over the years to show my paintings at the LMFA Longview Museum of Fine Art, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, the Museum of East Texas, the Dishman Art Museum, the Museum of the Gulf Coast, and the Mesquite Arts Center as well as in galleries throughout the country. My paintings have appeared in American Art Collector, Art Reveal Magazine, the Austin Chronicle, the Dallas Observer, Empty Easel, Professional Artist Magazine, VIP, Voyage, and more. I’m honored to have paintings in homes and collections in thirty-two states in the U.S. and overseas in Singapore and hope to one day have paintings in all Fifty Nifty United States and around the world.