I work mostly with oil on canvas. I don’t approach paintings from the forms. When I feel something deep, my best communication is through my paintings. I’ve never learned art or painting, but this is what I do. In my world, we were created and are living inside a beautiful piece of art, continually.
I also make short video stories for each one of my paintings, something that I did on Instagram from 2017 to 2018.
I am not a big fan of online interactions and stopped being available online. (Well, I am working on it.) Some of these videos are now on my YouTube channel @anybird_visualartstories.
With these videos I won a few awards and got good feedback. One of them won in the “Best Pilot” category in the Scarab Short Film Festival, among other awards. The film is The Refiner. It also has a review by Short Films Matter.
I am ready to speak now, and I am firmly committed to, in some way, somehow, wake up everyone I can to create a better world – together.
Thank you again,
Anybird
Exhibitions (all in or around Austin, TX):
- Amplify Credit Bank, Burnet Road, May to June 2014: “Tropical Transformation” (oil on canvas, 36”h x 48”w)
- Hecho En Mexico, Steiner Ranch, August to November 2014: “Mandala” (oil on canvas, 36”h x 48”h), “Female Soul” (oil on canvas, 48”h x 36”w)
- Cypress Grill, September to October 2014: “Texas” (oil on canvas, 48”h x 48”w)
- Daugherty Gallery (juried exhibit), November to December 2014: “Peaceful Power” (oil on canvas, 36”h x 48”w)
- Riverbend Inspirational Gallery (juried exhibit), January to April 2015: “Light” (oil on canvas, 38”h x 47”w)
- Tour the Talent, Dripping Springs, March 2015: “Peaceful Power” (oil on canvas, 36”h x 48”w), “Because the Sun” (oil on canvas, 36”h x 48”w), “Moon Shadow” (oil on canvas, 36”h x 48”w), “Texas” (oil on canvas, 48”h x 48”w), “After the Rain” (oil on canvas, 36”h x 48”w), “Shamanic Venus” (oil on canvas, 36”h x 48”w)
- Big Artist Little Artist, Daugherty Gallery, April to May 2017: “Just Purple” (oil on canvas, 36”h x 24”w)
- Big Artist Exhibition, Mondo Gallery, June 2017: “Shamanic Venus” (oil and clay on canvas, 36” x 36”)
- Drama Classes Tutor, contracted by Planting Seeds Tutoring, at Fern Bluff Elementary School and Laurel Mountain E.S. in Round Rock: The children created their own story about the same wood doll, and we made a video about it. It was an incredibly positive experience for all of us.
I have sold, donated, or given away 4 pieces of my work:
- “Change” (oil on canvas 36” x 36”): Donated to (and sold at) the fundraiser “100 for $100” for helping artists in Wimberly, TX, after the floods in 2015.
- “Mandala” (oil on canvas, 36” x 36”): Donated to Theresa Zelazny (Mobile Arts) for a fundraiser for Alzheimer’s patients in 2015.
- “Light” (oil on canvas 48”w x 36”h): Donated to Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church, Cedar Park, TX, in 2016. It is exposed at the main aisle of the church.
- A Spirit Doll called “The King of the Class”, as the name of the video in 2022, at Laurel Mountain Elementary School Round Rock, Texas.