"Enymion Trumpet Player" 11" x 14" Oil on Canvas, $350 Ten New Mardi Gras Paintings, New Prints, and a Sale   Hi Everyone,   I hope you are enjoying the Mardi Gras season! Although I didn't grow up with Mardi Gras, in my own way I have become a Mardi Gras booster. I especially enjoy seeing it through my children's eyes. My son, Arthur, loves the "King Arthur" parade, and draws up multiple schedules of parades that he wants to see. My daughter, Rosemary, lives to catch as many stuffed animals as she can. Here she is with her collection.   ..read more

WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE A PRACTICE "Daybreak" 16" x 20" Oil on Canvas, Available   Hi Everyone,   Last fall I began practicing meditation with a focus on mindfulness. Lest you think I am now some Zen master floating on a mountaintop, meditation for me is about returning to simple things like focusing on the breath and feeling grounded in your own body. I like the UCLA meditation app. It's easy for beginners, down to earth, and there is no pressure to understand the meaning of the universe. It's just about being present and not getting lost in your head ..read more

MARDI GRAS SALE! "Dinosaur House" Signed, Numbered Print   "Circus House" Print "Jester House" Print   Hi Everyone,   To celebrate Mardi Gras I am having a sale on prints. Use discount code MARDIGRAS to take 15% OFF all prints now through Ash Wednesday which is March 2nd.   I also wanted to share some of my newest creations, new paintings and prints of the elaborate float houses that popped up all around the city. Last year when Mardi Gras was canceled due to the pandemic, folks in NOLA stepped up and decora ..read more

Why I am donating 20% of my sales to UNICEF to help Ukraine. "Crescent City Streetcar" 24" x 30" $750   Hi Everyone,   In December of 2021 customers like you helped me to donate $2,682 to support homeless young people at Covenant House in New Orleans. I feel compelled to do another fundraiser for the situation in Ukraine so for the month of March I am donating 20% of my sales of all paintings and prints to UNICEF.   UNICEF provides safe water, sanitation, medical care and hygiene supplies to children and families from Ukraine.   The in ..read more

Crossing Paths with Jazz, from the North Carolina Mountains to the Funky Butt in New Orleans "Screen Door Serenade" 24" x 36" $895   Hi Everyone,   When I was seventeen, I went to an arts and music camp at Brevard College in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina with musicians, dancers and artists from all over the country. In high school I was a bit player, but at this camp, I somehow fell in with the cool kids and made friends with some aspiring jazz musicians. If you have ever met someone who plays the saxophone, you know there is no one ..read more

Oprah and the Healing Power of Painting "Protectors Diptych" 40" x 60" Original Paintings Available-Click Here Prints Available Click Here   Note-This was written about a week before Hurricane Ida. I wanted to share it now that the paintings are complete.   Hi Everyone,   It was going to be a difficult week. My wife was going out of town, a tough but necessary renovation project was about to begin, and I was trying to juggle childcare schedules with my (wonderful) in- laws. I was stressed and having trouble making decisions. A ..read more

"Six Umbrellas on Chartres Street" Large Giclee Print, 24" X 18,"   Hi Everyone,   I hope you are enjoying the summer and this holiday weekend. I am looking forward to taking my family to the Fourth of July fireworks as they were cancelled last year.   I wanted to share that I will be offering Free Shipping in the U.S.A. for the entire month of July. No discount code needed.   I also wanted to let you know that each Friday in July I will be adding a new large Giclee print to my website like the print "Six Umbrellas on Chartres Street" pictured a ..read more

The Daphne Jubilee Festival is this Weekend. "Spread Your Wings" 36" x 60" $3,185   Hi Everyone,   I wanted to invite you to the Jubilee Festival in Daphne, Alabama this Saturday and Sunday. The festival takes place in Olde Town Daphne in Lott Park on the 15th and 16th of October and I am in booth #125. I really love this show and I am bringing almost thirty original paintings, many of them were created just this past month.   If you can't make it to the show, you can view all of my available work here on my website--Artwork for Sale   Here ..read more

September Painting Sale "Tree of Tranquility" 40" x 30"On Sale at $837 (Regularly $1,395) "The Light Bends" 40" x 30" On Sale at $837 (Regularly 1,395)   Hi Everyone,   I hope you are doing well and having an easy time transitioning out of summer. For us that means revving up our pace---getting back into the rhythm of school and after-school activities.     Towards the end of summer I like to put my older artwork on sale to prepare for fall and the start of new paintings. I thought about calling the sale my, "Pre-Pandemic ..read more

  My high school senior photo Me with some of the ladies of New Doris at Tulane's 20th reunion last year   Hi Everyone,   When I went to Tulane University in the late 90s it was a culture shock. In high school I knew who I was: I had a close group of mostly guy friends, an identity as an artist and I even had a girlfriend. But when I arrived at college, I became unsure of myself. It wasn't until the end of my freshman year that I really started to make friends. In part, I blame myself for having a mustache during the first week of school-- I l ..read more