Several weeks ago, John Sprecher of Coaste Magazine paid me a visit at Lovegrove Gallery & Gardens. He wrote an article titled “Who Doesn’t Love Some Leoma,” and you can find it in the May/June edition. “Leoma Lovegrove is unequivocally a star among Southwest Florida artists, a personality as big and flashy and colorful and delightfully [...]
In my last post, I described becoming the first American to be invited to paint on a replica of Claude Monet’s floating studio, Le Bateau-Atelier. Making the most of my three hours on board, I created 20 paintings on cardboard by the time we arrived back at the former home of famous French painter Pierre Bonnard, [...]
It’s no secret that I’m fond of the water. I’ve sailed with Captain Jack, painted on the water in and around Matlacha Island, and did an entire series of paintings for Bealls on a house boat on the Bradenton River. Called Float My Boat, images from those paintings can be found on a host of products [...]
