Artist comment: “This painting of Norman Sylvester was a long time in the making, as I have been wanting to paint him for many years. I had to wait for the right photo, and then had to wait for the background idea to come to me. Norman is an icon in the Northwest and specifically Portland, so placing him overlooking the city and Mt. Hood turned out to be perfect. And the timing couldn’t have been better, because I finished just in time to be invited to unveil the painting at his band’s 40th Anniversary concert at the Alberta Rose Theater in March 2025. When I took the covering off the painting, I looked up at Norman and tears were streaming down his face. It was a very touching moment, and it was such an honor to be a part of it.”
Me & Norman 2025
Portfolio Categories:
Blues & Jazz Oil Paintings
Charlie Musselwhite
Original Drawing, Charcoal on Stonehenge
15×19″
$450
Portfolio Categories:
Pencil Drawings
Ben Harper
Original Drawing, Charcoal on Stonehenge
15×19″
$400
Portfolio Categories:
Pencil Drawings
Bobby Rush
Original Drawing, Charcoal on Stonehenge
14×19″
$750
Portfolio Categories:
Pencil Drawings
Keb’ Mo’ Blues
Oil on linen, 24×36″
$4800
Limited edition prints are available
20″x30″- $300
13″x20″- $150
Artist Comment: I’ve been a fan of Keb’ Mo’s music for almost thirty years. I’ve been to almost every one of his concerts in Portland, and have photographed most of them. His performance at Revolution Hall in 2022 was one of his best, and this painting is from one of my photos of that evening. I was intrigued by the way the light hit his face and the way it transitioned to the blue shadow, and I tried to capture that mood in my painting. It proved harder than I thought it would be (what else is new) but I pushed through and got it done!
Portfolio Categories:
Oil Paintings
Final Bow (Pharoah Sanders)
Oil on linen, 24×36″
$6000
Limited edition prints are available
20″x30″- $300
13″x20″- $150
Artist comment: “I finally saw Pharaoh Sanders for the first time at the PDX Jazz Festival in 2019, and was not disappointed. He has been around a very long time, playing with John Coltrane for awhile before going on to a prolific career. He was slow moving on stage at first, and seemed barely able to walk, but his sax playing was a force of nature and halfway through the performance he actually started to dance. At the end of his performance, he held his sax and bowed, and I snapped a few shots which I knew would make a good painting. I hope I did him justice.”
Portfolio Categories:
Blues & Jazz Oil Paintings
Pharoah Sanders
Charcoal on Stonehenge, 15×19″
SOLD
Portfolio Categories:
Blues & Jazz Pencil Drawings
Covid Blues
Oil on linen, 24×36″
$20,000
Limited edition prints are available
20″x30″- $300
13″x20″- $150
Best of Show, Lake Oswego Art Festival’s 2022 Artists Vision Show!
Artist comment: “2020 was a difficult year for everyone, and artists are no exception. I had been missing live music terribly, and one day early in July (when the Waterfront Blues Festival usually happened) I was walking to the store and walked right into one of the Blues Festival’s eight traveling concerts which they had put together especially for Covid times. I hadn’t expected to see this concert, and to say I needed this is an understatement. I took as many photos as I could from about half a block away, and managed to have enough photos to compose my painting. “Covid Blues” pretty much sums up this year of no art shows and no live music. Somehow the music finds a way to be heard, and the art gets created. I’m glad I was able to document this historical time in a way that made sense to me… with music. The painting features the Bayou Boys (Dave Kahl, Steve Kerin, Brian Foxworth, Jimmy Russell, Dan Berkery) plus special guest Arietta Ward, who said the painting makes them all look like super heroes. And she’s right… they are!”
Portfolio Categories:
Blues & Jazz Oil Paintings
Esperanza Spalding
Oil on linen, 18×22″
$3500
Limited edition prints are available
15″x20″- $150
Artist comment: “Esperanza Spalding has performed many times at the Portland Jazz Festival, and last year I was able to photograph her amazing performance with Terri Lynn Carrington and Ravi Coltrane. The set was wonderful, and although I had many great photos, I chose this pose of Esperanza to work from because it best captured the joy and intensity of her performance.”
Portfolio Categories:
Blues & Jazz Oil Paintings
TROMBONE SHORTY
Charcoal on Stonehenge, 18×22″
SOLD
Artist comment: The first time I saw Trombone Shorty perform at the Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland, I was blown away. That was in 2009, and since then I have not missed a performance. I’ve taken hundreds of photos of him and his band at numerous concerts in the last ten years, and each time the performances get better. After all those concerts, I finally chose one photo to use as reference for this drawing. It’s the way he ends every show, holding his trombone and trumpet in the air. The expression on his face is what drew me in to using this particular image, from his 2017 Edgefield performance.
Portfolio Categories:
Blues & Jazz Pencil Drawings
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