On Galveston Island everything is about location. My studio is located in a 1940s era storefront located in midtown on 45th street, between Broadway and Seawall Boulevards. The building is simple and unpretentious with a feeling of comfortable decay.
The space accommodates me and my work in a mutually satisfying way.
We tolerate each other’s eccentricities and temperaments like the island tolerates its inhabitants, “We’re here, let’s make this work”. And we’ve made some pretty good work. It’s not Francis Bacon’s studio, but I’ll take my inspiration from the unstructured and the sublime at every turn.
The gulf breezes and salty air require that I maintain a storage space in Houston, Texas forty miles inland and for that I have a great team of logistics and installation personnel that are as much a part of my studio as the paints and brushes. Island life has its challenges, but the feeling is choice.
