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Exhibit History

Partial List of Clients:
National Geographic, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, Audubon, Outside, Harper’s, On Earth, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall St. Journal, Architectural Digest, Travel & Leisure, Orion, Bon Appétit, South Dakota Magazine.Book publishers - Doubleday, Time-Life Books, Little Brown, Harcourt Brace, Vintage Books, St. Martin’s Press, Chronicle Books, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, McGraw Hill, Avon Books, Marshall Cavendish, The Richard Corrigan Art Collection.

Partial List of Commissions and Collections: ​
The National Park Service, National Zoo, Peace Corps, The Nature Conservancy, Tampa History Center, National Archives, San Diego Zoo, Alleghany Trail Alliance, Heifer Project, Ducks Unlimited, Jane Katcher Collection of Americana, Florida Wildlife Initiative, Napa Valley Appellations, Architectural Design Guild, Freer Gallery, Christie’s, Patagonia, the Coca-Cola Company, McDonald’s, and American Airlines.

Represented by:​
Grovewood Gallery, Asheville North Carolina
Justus Fine Art Gallery, Hot Springs Arkansas​
Alex Gallery, Washington DC​
La Jolla Map & Atlas Museum, California​
The Library of Congress

Partial List of Exhibits:
​Grovewood Gallery, Asheville North Carolina (The Last Mapmaker - solo show 2024)​
George Davis Fine Art Gallery, Savannah Georgia (group show 2023 to present)
The Grovewood Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina (group show 2022 - present)
​Justus Fine Art Gallery, Hot Springs Arkansas (group show 2021)​
Gallery C, Raleigh North Carolina (solo exhibit 2020 - "Falling"(solo show)​
The Map & Atlas Museum of La Jolla California - In 2018 the museum purchased 225 of my illustrated maps for their permanent collection to be eventually donated to The Library of Congress
​The Grovewood Gallery, Asheville North Carolina (solo exhibit “Falling” 2018)​
The Grovewood Gallery, Asheville North Carolina (group exhibit 2017 - Present)
​Gallery C, Raleigh North Carolina (group show 2017)
The Annesdale Park Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee (solo exhibit "Charted: Natural Studies" 2016)
The Annesdale Park Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee (summer group exhibit 2016)
Carolina Gallery, Spartanburg, South Carolina (group exhibit 2016)
Alex Gallery, Gallery A in Washington, DC ( solo exhibit "Ways of Flying" 2014)
Alex Gallery, Gallery A in Washington, D.C. (solo exhibit "The Heart of the World" 2013)
Gallery 10 in Washington, D.C. (solo exhibit "Blood Trail")
Brody Gallery in Washington, D.C. (group "Bones")
Tula Foundation Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia (Blood Trail included in group)
45th North Carolina Artists Exhibit at North Carolina Museum of Art (Blood Trail included in group)
The Mint Biennial in Charlotte, NC (Blood Trail included in group)
Kinston Center for the Arts in North Carolina (Blood Trail solo)
Durham Arts Council, North Carolina (Blood Trail solo)
The Paper Plant Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina (Blood Trail solo)
Fayetteville Museum of Art in North Carolina (Blood Trail group)
Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia (Blood Trail solo)
Hand Gallery - Richmond Virginia Center for the Arts (Blood Trail group)
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Blood Trail - solo)
Danville Museum of Fine Arts in Virginia (Blood Tail solo)
Urbi et Orbi Gallery in Little Rock, Arkansas (Blood Trail solo)
Arkansas Arts Center – The Delta Art Show (Blood Trail included in group) 

Left: three examples of my Blood Trail series

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FALLING

 

When I was a boy of five or maybe six, I was in the woods behind our house when I saw a mourning dove fall suddenly from the sky and hit the ground hard. I got close enough to see its heart pounding and I remember my own heart was beating just as fast. I could see the pale rose color of its breast and the gray and cream colors of its wings. I stood as still as I could and watched and waited. The light faded and the woods went silent. The wind died and I thought the dove had died too. It got dark and yet the bird didn’t move. Finally, I reached down to pick it up and it exploded in a thunder of wings and vanished into the night sky. That memory, the moment that bird left me standing alone in those dark woods, has stayed with me all my life - more than stayed with me - it has haunted me and has many times over the years entered my dreams. I think of these paintings as markers of memory and mourning for each individual bird, split second moments of time, stopped forever on canvas as these wondrous beings fall one by one to earth and sea. Most of these paintings are a trinity of bird, sky, and earth or sea, but in some the bird is falling through a vast emptiness of sky and you can only sense the presence of earth or sea somewhere far below. Now these years later the memory of that dove has become the basis for these paintings in my Falling Series.

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​​Scroll down to see examples and please contact me for the few available works in this series:

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Falling Mourning Dove

​Acrylic on canvas

60 x 48 inches

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Falling Night Heron

Acrylic on canvas

48 x 40 inches

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Falling Arctic Tern

Acrylic on canvas

40 x 30 inches

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Falling Snowy Egret

Acrylic on canvas

40 x 30 inches

Falling Great Blue Heron

Acrylic on canvass

40 x 30 inches

Falling Gannet

Acrylic on canvas

56 x 48 inches

Falling Green Woodpecker

Acrylic on canvass

40 x 30 inches

Falling Eurasian Jay

Acrylic on canvass

30 x 24 inches

Falling Razorbill

Acrylic on canvas

30 x 24 inches

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