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HELLO EVERYONE!!!
Welcome to my Visionary Art Environment I’m
turning my Farm into!
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As you wander through
my web you will see Sculptures--mostly Presents for my Family I’ve
Made--& Guitars & Basses—Violins & Cellos, Jewelry I call Trinkets--& my
Newest Creations -- Tree Spirits -- I Make to Populate my Farm!
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BEARLIOZ & WILDE
PORKER--both Commissions--Porker was my First Cello I ever
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My only formal training was a few Violin
Making Lessons from a Bass Fiddle Maker & Kenneth Warren--who
started the Chicago School. All the Rest--Carvings, Inlays,
Sculptures, Guitars & Inventions, Jewelry, Tree Spirits-- all Self
Taught!
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DOCTOR BIRD
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The Carving at the top is a Tribute to My
Family & Farm -- who I Dearly Love & without I would not be here or be
the Person I Am! It's a Giant Bird Perched on My House & Barn Pulling a
Fish Out of My Pond! Many people call my Home my Art or Fiddle
Farm & say that I've made my own Visionary Art Environment! They call
me a Primitive or Outsider or Self Taught Artist--which I suppose I Am!
All my Work is based on my Love of My Family,
Woods, Swamp, Pond--Living Out in Nature & a Belief that Springs from JRR
Tolkien's Book the Silmarillion--that We Will All Make a Great Music for
Peace! Most of my Work has been devoted to my Electric Guitars &
Basses in which I can Tell these Stories of Peace & Love as Expressed
through the Carvings & Inlays—as
seen in my First Guitar—my Dragon Rose ^^^
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Soaring Eagle Guitar
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I've also Collaborated with Jamaican Artisans
on my Guitars & I will be adding a Jamaica Gallery to Exhibit their
Works of Art. In my Sunset Gallery you will see some Sunsets from Negril Beach!
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I think Carved Heads are More Interesting
than Carving arms & legs so I take Tree Branches & turn them upside down
& Make Feet with Mushrooms Growing between their Toes with Turtles &
Frogs Feeding on them!
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Down below is an aerial view of my Farm & I
will be adding Lots of pictures of my Swamp, Flowers, Birds, & Sunsets! My
Sunset Dancing is kind of a Prayer of mine to go out & Sing & Dance & Give
Praises for every Sunset for my Blessings & Gifts of Life I try to Give Back
through my Works of Art! I hope my Art Amuses & Inspires you to
Believe--We
Will have Peace on Earth--In Our Life Times!!!
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I live on the South
Side of Hwy 60--My little country road has become a big major highway!
In the North East corner you can see my Spring Fed Pond & my house & barn to
the West! I'm surrounded by 40 acres of Farm Fields which gives me
Great Sunsets & where I go every night to Dance & Sing & Give Praises for
All my Blessings! The Woods to the East & South is only part
mine but part of a Bigger Woods I call my Swamp--which is Full of Beautiful
Flowers--Trilliums & Swamp Orchids--that Change through out the Seasons!
To the West is the West End which My Father sold to neighbors & built a
House for He & My Mother & is in the South West Corner of Our Farm!
I am So Glad to have them So Close!!! Our Farm is a Diverse Eco-System
full of Wild Flowers, Herons & Turkeys, Rare Snakes, with Terrain that
ranges from Fertile Farm Fields to Swamp & Woodlands with Great Sunsets!!!
Thank You for Letting me Live in such a Blessed Place!!! |