Olive and Wednesday

I started this Facebook page in 2014 when I opened a store to sell my paintings at College Mall in Bloomington Indiana. I opened another store in San Francisco California in 2015 at Stonestowne Galleria and operated two locations, one in California and one in Indiana, until last year when I closed both locations. My leases ended and I moved permanently to Chappell Nebraska. My lease at College Mall ended in September of last year and I am now painting at my home-studio in Nebraska. All new work is made at my home-studio in Nebraska

LEAD TIME ON NEW COMMISSIONED WORK
Current lead time for an original painting is 3 weeks. All of my paintings are original as I don't reprint or lithograph my original work, or sell my copyrights. Shipping and packing prices are not included. Please allow 2 additional weeks for shipping. There is No lead time on painting acquisitions from my inventory.

STATUS OF NUMBERED & LISTED PAINTINGS
All of my paintings are numbered and listed with a status. If a painting has an "AVAILABLE" status, the painting pictured in listing is available for acquisition. If a painting has a "SOLD" status, the painting pictured in listing has been sold, and the next painting in the series can be painted as a new commission. Generally, I will post which collection the painting belongs to. If the painting has a "PROTOTYPE" status, it is not available for acquisition, but the next painting in the series can be painted as a new commission. Please message me for more info or visit my website for additional information on listings and prices.

ALL PAINTINGS ARE UNIQUE & DIFFERENT FROM THE NEXT PAINTING IN A SERIES FOR NEW COMMISSIONS
Colors, textures, mood, and tones are similar, but each arrangement varies in a series. A new commissioned painting in a series is simply a continuation of the first painting in a series. A series is characterized by the same theme of a prototype, and the prototype is the first painting in a series. All of my paintings are signed and numbered.

MY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2010-2015
In 2010 I moved to Chicago, Illinois in search of a gallery to represent my work. While searching for a gallery, and work, I was hired to paint paintings for a start up company that bought my copyrights for each painting they commissioned from me. I received a small payment for each copyright and made hundreds of works. Since I was paid only by copyright, I was a "starving" artist, and needed the money, the faster I painted, the more copyrights I sold.

I truly lived Thomas Edison's adage, "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration", realizing how fast my work was evolving during all of my edits to quickly complete a painting. My so called "survival" actually depended on how much work I could produce.

In 2011, after I had produced a couple hundred or so paintings, I was asked by my patron company to paint over other paintings I made in order to save on material costs, since all the copyrights were digital, and the "original" virtually had no value....(to them anyway).

So myself, and this company, parted ways, and I loaded up my car with all of the paintings I made in Chicago,and drove back to my home in Michigan.

I had an idea to sell the paintings at a kiosk in any mall, in Michigan USA. So within a week after leaving Chicago, I was opening up my first retail venture at Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi Michigan.

During the next four years, like other new vendors with unique ideas, it seemed I was being scouted by other malls and leasing agents, each one offering a better deal than the last, and in turn I had opened and closed and reopened 6 different locations in Michigan, Indiana, Wyoming and California,

Today, my heart has brought me to Chappell Nebraska. My mom, and her family, lives nearby at a neighboring horse farm and I have turned in my 90 hour work week for fresh air, family, farm animals, beautiful Nebraska wheat field scenery, and life in a small town. I don't rush through my paintings anymore, and I don't try to meet a quota in paintings sales each week to make my mall lease rent. My customers have kindly waited on a waitlist if the painting they want has not been available, understanding that some things are worth waiting a little bit longer for. (But no one has to wait very long !! Around the holidays things tend to get busy and longest lead time has been about 6 weeks).

Each painting is special as it makes a connection with the viewer that admires or buys it....and if that's you, thank you for appreciating my work!