George Rodrigue was truly one of the most prolific and praised Louisiana artists in history. Born in New Iberia, Louisiana, Rodrigue not only had a gift for capturing the beauty of Louisiana, his Blue Dog has become an iconic symbol of Louisiana art and culture, and is known around the world. His works began in the 1960's with incredible oils of Louisiana Landscapes, then Cajun scenes, and culminating with scenes incorporating both Louisiana landscapes and Tiffany the Blue Dog. Rodrigue's colorful prints are sought around the world, and his acrylic Blue Dog originals break auction house records throughout the country. 

Rodrigue's early notable works include "The Aioli Dinner," which divides time between the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and "The Class of Marie Courage, which won Honorable Mention from Le Salon in Paris, France in 1975, prompting French newspaper "Le Figero," to dub Rodrigue "America's Rousseau." Rodrigue's most famous early works included Evangeline (the Acadian heroine), and Jolie Blonde (the Cajun modern day Evangeline). He also designed three prints for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which feature portraits of Jazz Greats Louis Armstrong, Pete Fountain, and Al Hirt. Rodrigue also painted beautiful portraits of Louisiana Politicians, including: Huey P. Long, Earl K. Long, and Edwin W. Edwards.  Rodrigue also famously painted a series of fifteen paintings chronicling the journey of the Acadians from France to Nova Scotia to Louisiana, ending with the official return visit to Grand Pre. 

More recently and worldwide, Rodrigue is known for the creation of the Blue Dog series of paintings, featuring a blue-hued dog. He used the shape and stance of his dog named Tiffany and was influenced by the loop-garou legend and often featuring Louisiana landscapes as a backdrop. In 1992, Rodrigue was honored as an About Vodka artist, joining the ranks of Andy Warhol and glass artist Hans Godo Frabel. The Blue Dog was also used by the Xerox Corporation in national ad campaigns, and is featured on the label of Pret a Boire, a lovely Rose. 

George Rodrigue passed away in October of 2013, but his works, and the Blue Dog, remain a symbol of Louisiana Culture and a status symbol among Louisiana natives spread around the world.  

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James Michalopoulos, (nee James Mitchell), was born in Pennsylvania, but moved to New Orleans and became famous, for capturing the iconic architectural landscape of the city with a certain whimsical fluidity that mirrors the New Orleans joie de vivre. 

Michalopoulous is a self taught artist who began his career working in Jackson Square as a street artist. He drew sketches of the square and of people for $2-3 each. After growing tired of drawing portraits, Michalopoulos started traveling around New Orleans on a Vespa with a portable easel, painting the buildings and architecture of New Orleans. His early works were exhibited at local restaurants, and throughout the French Quarter. 

Michalopoulos has served as the official artist of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival six times, and his highly collectable prints have featured Dr. John, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Fats Domino, Alan Toussaint, and Aaron Neville.

His paintings are colorful and feature "exaggerated viewpoints and perspectives." He uses palate knives in his work to provide intense color and texture, and each original oil takes two to three days to complete, although Michalopoulos leaves "completed" works in his studio for weeks and continues to add paint as he feels necessary. His early works were signed "Mitchell" or "M," and his later works, are signed Michalopoulos. 

Few painters have been able to capture New Orleans and Louisiana in the way that James Michalopoulos has, and for that reason he is one of our featured artists. His works are featured in the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 

Looking for a Michalopoulos? We can help! Cayman served as the Director of Development and then Gallery Director of the Michalopoulos Gallery, overseeing the production and fundraising for a feature length PBS Documentary, procuring, planning, and fundraising for multiple significant solo Museum shows, and leading the Gallery in record sales. Cayman left the Michalopoulos Gallery in 2025 on amicable terms to pursue his writing and art business full time.

To discuss selling a Michalopoulos original, please email Cayman at Cayman@LouisianaArt.com. He would be happy to assist you promptly and answer any questions you may have and direct you to a trusted Michalopoulos team member to make a purchase.

For more information on Michalopoulos please visit his website at www.Michalopoulos.com

Clementine Hunter was Louisiana's most celebrated and beloved folk artist. She is also Louisiana's most famous female artist. Hunter a self-taught African-American artist from the Cane River region of Louisiana, lived and worked on Melrose Plantation. Her work depicted plantation life in the early 20th century, documenting a bygone era. Her first paintings sold for as little as 25 cents. By the end of her life, her works were exhibited in museums around the world and sold by dealers and galleries for thousands of dollars. Hunter was the granddaughter of a former slave. Hunter received an hoary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Northwestern State University in 1986. Though she is considered a folk artist legend, she spent her entire life in poverty, even though she was selling her pieces of art in the 1970's for hundreds of dollars. She died in 1988 in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Hunter is one of the most well-known self-taught artists, often referred to as the black Grandma Moses. Hunter painted from memory, and her works portray cotton and pecan picking, washing clothes, baptisms, and funerals. Many of her paintings feature similar subjects, but each painting is unique. Hunter's work features colorful displays of plantation life with powerful expressive force. 

Hunter was the first African-Amerian artist to have a solo exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and prominent collectors include Oprah Winfrey and the late Joan Rivers, among many others . Her work can also be seen in the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of American Folk Art, the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, and the New York Historical Association. 

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Hunt Slonem is one of the most important figures in the art world with ties to Louisiana. Slonem is, far and away the most significant artist to graduate from Tulane University. Although you won’t find his signature on the front of any of his works, Slonem’s art is distinctly his own and instantly recognizable.

Slonem is critically acclaimed for his paintings of the natural world; he depicts colorful butterflies, bunnies, birds, and bayous. His works are featured in the collections of the most respected museums and private collections in the country.

Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds, as well as his large-scale sculptures and restorations of forgotten historic homes. Slonem’s works can be found in the permanent collections of 250 museums around the world, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Whitney, the Miro Foundation and the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Since his first solo show at the Fischbach Gallery in 1977, Slonem’s work has been showcased internationally hundreds of times, most recently at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. In 2017 and 2018, he will be featured by the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the National Gallery in Bulgaria, and in countless galleries across the United States, Germany and Dubai.

His flair and admiration for far-flung destinations has been a staple of his life since childhood. Slonem was born in 1951 in Kittery, Maine, and his father’s position as a Navy officer meant the family moved often during Hunt’s formative years, including extended stays in Hawaii, California and Connecticut. He would continue to seek out travel opportunities throughout his young-adult years, studying abroad in Nicaragua and Mexico; these eye-opening experiences imbued him with an appreciation for tropical landscapes that would influence his unique style.

After graduating with a degree in painting and art history from Tulane University in New Orleans, Slonem spent several years in the early 1970s living in Manhattan. It wasn’t until Janet Fish offered him her studio for the summer of 1975 that Slonem was able to fully immerse himself in his work. His pieces began getting exhibited around New York, propelling his reputation and thrusting him into the city’s explosive contemporary arts scene. He received several prestigious grants, including from Montreal’s Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Cultural Counsel Foundation’s Artist Project, for which he painted an 80-foot mural of the World Trade Center in the late 1970s. He also received an introduction to the Marlborough Gallery, which would represent him for 18 years.

As Slonem honed his aesthetic, his work began appearing in unique, contextual spaces. By 1995 he finished a massive six-by-86-foot mural of birds, which shoots across the walls of the Bryant Park Grill Restaurant in New York City. His charity work has resulted dozens of partnerships, including a wallpaper of his famous bunnies designed specifically with Lee Jofa for the Ronald McDonald House in Long Island.

Slonem continues to draw great inspiration from history, forging palpable connections to the past through his art. His popular portraits of Abraham Lincoln reframe the historic figure as a pop-art icon, and he is currently working on a nine-foot-tall bronze sculpture of French explorer Robert De La Salle, to be displayed publicly in Louisiana.

Yet Slonem’s most ambitious project has been his mission to save America’s often forgotten historic buildings. Realizing too many of the country’s architectural gems have fallen into disrepair, Slonem has found himself drawn to these national landmarks, inspired by the depth of their age and old-world beauty. Among his accomplishments are the restorations of Cordt’s Mansion in Kingston, New York; the Lakeside and Albania plantations of Louisiana; and the Scranton Armory and Charles Sumner Woolworth’s mansion in Scranton, Pennsylvania. His sixth and latest endeavor is Belle Terre, a storied property in South Kortright, New York.

Numerous books and monographs have chronicled Slonem’s art, including Bunnies (Glitterari Inc., 2014), Birds (Glitterati Inc., 2017) and Hunt Slonem: An Art Rich and Strange (Harry N. Abrams, 2002). His studios and homes have been profiled in such books as When Art Meets Design (Assouline Publishing, 2014) and Pleasure Palaces: The Art and Homes of Hunt Slonem (powerHouse Books, 2007), among others. His latest will be Gatekeeper (Assouline Publishing), showcasing his reclamation of the Scranton Armory, and its transition “from arms to art.”

Courtesy: Hunt Slonem Gallery

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Just as Michelangelo unveils masterpieces hidden within stone, as though the marble itself whispers its potential to his hands, Russell Whiting uses a torch, chisel, and grinder to reveal masterpieces from pieces of solid steel. With every strike of the chisel, every cut of the torch, he frees the soul of the sculpture, breathing life into the cold, solid, unyielding steel. An innovative and entirely unique recreation of sculptural methods using an entirely new technique, Whiting creates brilliant figurative works, abstracts, flora and fauna from his home and studios amongst the trees and attuned with nature in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Whiting also creates works in Bronze by casting his innovative steel carvings, working in traditional casting methods including wax and clay, and creates mixed medium works using marble, stone, wood, bronze, steel, and overpainting in brilliant and unique combinations. Whiting works brilliantly at any size, from desktop to monumental works.

Whiting has shown across the country, with Gallery representation in Maine, Georgia, and Tennessee, and public works sculptures in prominent places across the United States. His work is in the collections of museums, major corporations, sculpture gardens, and municipalities across the world.

Statement of the Artist:

“In 1990 I began using steel and techniques I had learned in the oil fields of the Gulf of Mexico. Those techniques I have found to be unique to my process.  Strongly influenced by classical forms, I have begun to recognize the validity of my own subconscious dialogue as an important source for my work.  This fusion results in classicism with contemporary execution.  The creation of my images is influenced by many factors: religion, ancient cultures, cinema, other artists, etc. The images are combined and mutated and reborn with no regard to logic or their cultural origins.

I have never let an idea die, constantly going back over the sketchbooks and reviving older pieces.  It’s a contradiction but the more I change, the more connected I become to my past. And of course the overall connective tissue to my work is the work (carved steel, my unique contribution to sculpture).”

Louisiana Art represents Russell Whiting in Louisiana, and is pleased to help with a commissioned project for your home, garden, office, or public works sculpture. We will begin offering in stock works in the second quarter of 2025.

Alexander John Drysdale: Louisiana’s Painter of Mist and Mystery

Alexander John Drysdale (1870–1934) is celebrated as one of Louisiana’s most evocative landscape painters, a master of mood who captured the ethereal beauty of the region like no other. Born in Marietta, Georgia, Drysdale moved to New Orleans as a young boy, where he fell in love with the city’s natural surroundings—the moss-laden cypress trees, shimmering bayous, and endless expanses of marshland. These landscapes became the heart and soul of his work.

Drysdale’s artistic journey began with formal studies at the Southern Art Union and later at the renowned Art Students League in New York. There, he was introduced to the Barbizon and Impressionist styles that would influence his distinct approach to painting. But it was back in Louisiana, amidst the humid air and shifting light of the swamps, that Drysdale found his true voice as an artist.

Employing a unique technique of oil paint thinned with kerosene, Drysdale’s works are defined by their dreamlike softness, as though the landscapes are suspended in time. His muted palette and delicate, misty strokes capture the essence of the Louisiana wilderness—not just how it looks, but how it feels. Each painting invites viewers to step into the stillness of a swamp at dawn or the quiet mystery of twilight over the bayou.

Drysdale’s work was celebrated in his time, with patrons eager to own a piece of Louisiana’s poetic scenery rendered through his vision. His paintings adorned the walls of New Orleans’ grandest homes and found their way into collections far beyond the South.

Yet, like many great artists, Drysdale’s life was not without struggle. The economic hardships of the Great Depression and the increasing demand for modern art overshadowed his later years. Despite this, his legacy endures, with his paintings serving as timeless windows into Louisiana’s soul.

Today, Alexander John Drysdale is remembered as a true son of the South, a painter whose art resonates with the quiet power of nature and the deep-rooted spirit of Louisiana. His work is not just a record of a place but an experience—one that continues to captivate and inspire.

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Françoise Gilot was one of the most enduring artists of the post World War II School of Paris. After deciding at the age of five that she wanted to be an artist, Françoise has plotted a course for her career which is interwoven with the evolution of modern art in the 20th Century.

Even at the young age of 21, Françoise Gilot was one of the most respected artists of the emerging School of Paris, a movement struggling for recognition during the years of The Occupation. Then, in 1943, during the time of her first important exhibition in Paris, Françoise met Pablo Picasso, an artist 40 years her senior. In 1946, Gilot and Picasso began a decade long relationship and Françoise became both a witness and a participant in one of the last great periods of the modern art movement in Europe. Their circle included poets, philosophers, writers, and many of the legends of the art world, such as Braque, Chagall, Cocteau, and Matisse. This artistic union was also shared with their two children, Claude and Paloma – whose antics and acrobatic postures were often captured in drawings and paintings. By late 1953, the relationship with Picasso had run its course and Gilot left the home she shared with him in Vallauris and returned to Paris with their children.

 In 1964, Françoise published Life with Picasso, and over a million copies were sold the first year. Life with Picasso has been translated into more than a dozen languages and it remains today a uniquely compelling and insightful observation about the human side of creative genius.

 In 1969, during an exhibition in Los Angeles, Françoise traveled to La Jolla and was introduced to Dr. Jonas Salk. Their mutual admiration of architecture prompted Dr. Salk to offer Françoise a tour of The Salk Institute, the renowned research facility he had founded on the bluffs overlooking the pacific. Their courtship was brief -- Françoise knew well the science of art and Jonas understood the art of science. With both their families in attendance, Paris was the site of a private wedding ceremony in June of 1970.

During her 25-year marriage to Dr. Salk, Françoise Gilot maintained studios in La Jolla, New York and Paris and her career continued to evolve and thrive - her work further infused with maturity and discovery. In addition to strongly structured canvases, often composed with a dominant cadmium red, Gilot’s oeuvre expanded to include monumental “floating paintings,” luminous monotypes and strong, technically sophisticated color lithographs and aquatints.

 Even after seventy years, Françoise Gilot continues to work as a painter wresting from form and color a visual statement that is at once both personal and universal. She is not content with the known; she views her task as an artist to transform and extend perceptions and to stimulate viewers towards new insights and experiences. In Gilot’s most recent paintings, the forces of nature, time and space are her preoccupations. Clearly, Gilot’s own explorations and achievements as an artist demonstrate how the vitality of a tradition can be maintained while simultaneously moving forward into the uncharted territories of the art world continuum.

Gilot passed away in June 2023 at the age of 101.

(Source: Mel Yoakum, Ph.D., Director, The F. Gilot Archives)

A New Orleans resident, Becky Fos is a bit of a Renaissance Woman. Fos’ popularity has been growing yearly, not only in the Big Easy, but worldwide. Her streak of burning creative energy is rivaled only by her daily goal of living an active lifestyle of workouts, jogging and CrossFit.

Becky Fos’ works are simply signed B. Fos. Her impasto technique, applying wet, undiluted oil paint with her palette knife, is unapologetically bold and energetic. She uses color as a forefront in her pieces that allow them to come to life, evoking an instant sense of happiness. Over the years, her layering of oil paint and colors have become heavier and thicker, with some of the oil paint being raised half an inch off of the canvas. Her art can be found at her gallery space at Gallery B. Fos on famous Magazine Street at Jackson Ave.

“For me, painting is the most authentic way to express myself,” says Becky. “I am not good with words, so I express myself with paint. I feel enormously blessed to live in New Orleans, where every day is a celebration of life. This city is truly my muse!” She continued, “I gather boundless inspiration from all corners of this wild, beautiful, and colorful city and its undeniably unique history, spicy culture and the vibrant people who live here. I then try to transform these inspirations into oil paintings with my fingers and palette knife.”

She adds, “I choose the colors on my palette, but in the end the colors really choose me. Being offered the opportunity to create a unique painting for the inaugural NOLA Mac N Cheese Fest poster is an exciting one for me and I look forward to sharing it with everyone!”

Becky’s festival poster, for Crescent City Classic in 2016, was the first ever to sell out of it’s prints. The NOLA Mac N Cheese FEST poster is much more limited, with only 1,000 total prints available. Look for her upcoming gallery events and her first coffee- table book on-line and in stores in early 2018.

Becky Fos is the most important female painter working in Louisiana today, and her artwork has taken the Gulf South by storm, with collectors across the Country and from all walks of life.

Artist Statement

“For me, painting is the most authentic way to express myself. I am not good with words, so I just want to keep this short. I feel enormously blessed to live in New Orleans. And I’m inspired by everything . I gather boundless inspiration from all corners of this wild, beautiful, and colorful city. New Orleans is my muse. I try to transform the spirit of my inspirations into oil paintings with my trusty palette knife. I choose the colors on my palette, but in the end the colors really choose me.”

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For more information on Becky Fos please visit her website at https://www.beckyfos.com

Louisiana Cajun Artist, Tony Bernard was born and raised in the unique and culturally rich city of Lafayette, Louisiana. His appreciation for Cajun culture and cuisine, in addition to his love of Louisiana’s “Sportsman’s Paradise” is evident in the way he captures it on canvas.

Tony, even at a young age loved to doodle. As a teenager, he realized that he was not only good at drawing and painting but loved doing it.

Tony Bernard’s voice booms. When he talks about his two greatest passions- Louisiana culture and creating art, he can fill up the room with his words, like a church soloist who doesn’t need a microphone to be heard from the back pews. Despite his larger-than-life presence, during an interview at his studio on Johnston Street in Lafayette, Bernard projected much more humility and joy than your average artist. 

He is not a tortured soul. His art is bright, cheerful, and happy, much like Bernard himself. But his journey did not begin in an art school, nor did he come from a traditional arts background. 

Bernard got his start painting custom signs for two of the most prominent brands in Louisiana: Tabasco and Landry’s Seafood. 

While working on a promotional hand painted billboard for Landry’s Seafood Restaurant that featured the Blue Dog, Bernard caught the eye of Louisiana’s most famous artist. 

 “You need to come work for me,” George Rodrigue said. The rest, as they say, is history. 

Bernard became Rodrigue’s assistant and right-hand man for more than 25 years. His story and his emergence as a fine artist are inextricably tied to George Rodrigue, a man who was dubbed Louisiana’s Rousseau. 

Tony started in commercial art in 1983. He gained recognition for winning first place in a national art contest, which published his work in a nationwide magazine for artist. He then moved into visual art in the early 90’s and in 1993, he began his working relationship with world renowned artist George Rodrigue. Tony’s relationship with George as mentor and friend was very instrumental in his growth as an artist.

Tony’s diversity in all mediums has been a passion from the start but acrylics on canvas is his favorite way to take the painting that he has created in his head and put it on canvas.Since beginning his professional career, Tony has been commissioned to produce original art work for over 30 posters for local and regional festivals and he also produced the official Posters for Schaeffer Crawfish Boil in Birmingham, AL, the Washington, D.C. Mardi Gras in 2015 & the 2017 Gator by the Bay in San Diego, CA. He has produced art for professional athletic teams, SEC and Sun Belt sporting events. He has painted wildlife pieces that won him the Louisiana Duck Stamp in 2007-08 and 2014-15.

Portrait artist is another title that Tony wears. Tony was commissioned to paint the Official portrait of the Governor that hangs in the Governor’s Mansion for the State of Louisiana. Tony was also commissioned to paint American Country Music artist Hunter Hayes.

In 2015, a long-time dream of Tony’s happened as he opened his first gallery. Initially, it was opened with Grammy Award Winner, Wayne Toups (Toups Bernard Musical Brushes) in Lafayette, Louisiana.

After a year, the space became too small for both artist, so Tony went solo and renamed the gallery, Bernard Studio & Gallery.

Tony was approached by Bed, Bath and Beyond and they are using Tony’s artwork on various products, including Tumblers, Garden Flags, Glass Cutting Boards and many more products.

Today, you can find Tony at his gallery, where he paints in the company of his wife, Roxie, who runs the gallery and they get to meet and visit with his collectors and friends.

Bernard was recently featured as the featured Artist for the State of Louisiana “I Voted Sticker,” This year’s sticker is the first to feature his own artwork, and his beautiful interpretation of the Louisiana State Seal speaks for itself as well. Bernard remains gracious and deferential to Rodrigue.

The Louisiana Secretary of State’s Press Secetary Tyler Brey said about Bernard “It is a tremendous honor to be selected, as an artist, to paint this work, and Bernard was chosen to succeed Rodrigue’s wildly popular Blue Dog sticker, and in many ways Bernard is a successor to Rodrigue.” Secretary of State Ardoin had seen Bernard’s work at the Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival, where he painted the event’s popular signature prints for the last nine years. Bernard saw this as an opportunity to give back to the State that has given him so much, “This was my gift to the people of Louisiana, I donated this artwork because I felt like it was my duty as a citizen of Louisiana,” Bernard said. 

Bernard paints a more colorful and whimsical Louisiana bayou and oaks scene than Rodrigue, and his pieces feature inconspicuous Louisiana iconography. Bernard’s work is uniquely his own, and uniquely Louisiana. Bernard’s art speaks the language of Louisiana, and he is fluent in Louisiana symbolism. It is the background and subject for almost all of his work. Sprawling landscapes focus on the natural beauty and iconic symbols of Louisiana- from oaks, bayous, and cypress trees to pelicans, crawfish, music, and musicians. His portraits feature many of Louisiana’s native sons and daughters, and one even hangs in the Louisiana Governor’s Mansion. 

This year’s sticker is an excellent example of Bernard’s work: layers of Louisiana imagery, including a pelican, cypress trees, the fleur de lis, and the phrases “Pelican State,” “Feed your soul,” “Sportsman’s Paradise,” and “1812.” Hidden in the piece are also other messages of positivity like “Love” and “Love One Another.” 

The piece is Bernard’s take on the Louisiana State Seal, incorporating bright, pop art colors mixed with the familiar Louisiana blue and gold of the official seal. The pelican in the piece, known as “King George,” has become Bernard’s most recognizable and important subject. 

The story of the Pelican with the crown and how it came to be known as “King George,” like many great Louisiana political stories, begins at D.C. Mardi Gras. And like many great Louisiana political stories, it has been widely misreported. 

Bernard had been selected to create the official print for D.C. Mardi Gras in 2015, and he wanted to create something unique for the doubloons that adorned the majority of the work. He decided to paint a pelican with a crown. 

“This image of the King Pelican is pretty striking,” he told his wife. “We need to come up with a name for it.” As he searched for a name, nothing stuck until he came across a photo he had of George Rodrigue at the Washington Hilton. Rodrigue had been getting dressed for D.C. Mardi Gras, sporting a Blue Dog t-shirt and a crown, preparing to put on his full Mardi Gras regalia. But Bernard insists he didn’t name the pelican after Rodrigue; he’d simply felt naming the name “King George” fit the character of the pelican.  

Tony Bernard is now a prominent force in the arts community of Acadiana, but his reach far exceeds his Southwest Louisiana roots. He has been called the “Louisiana Festival Poster King,” having been commissioned to create more than thirty prints for events across Louisiana and across the country, from San Diego to St. Mary Parish. 

We buy and sell original works by Tony Bernard, for more information please contact us.

(For More Information, or to purchase prints, visit: http://www.bernardstudio.com/)

Terrance Osborne, a 41 year old native New Orleanian, grew up in the heart of the culturally rich city of New Orleans. Being inspired by his diverse and colorful social surroundings, Osborne always held an undercurrent interest in art, largely fueled by his mother and his older brother. Facinated by color, Osborne worked with whatever materials he could get his hands on. Finally, in 1991, under the guidance of artist Richard Thomas, he was able to paint with the passion and expression that he had been so avid about.

Osborne attended the prestigious New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (N.O.C.C.A.) while in high school and later graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from Xavier University in New Orleans. For the following five years he taught at Alice Harte in the public school system. After Hurricane Katrina Osborne decided to dedicate his time completely to his art. His work has recently become a national recognized item. Over the past few years he has been featured in a slew of public media. In 2004 Osborne was granted the honorary “Forty Under Forty Award” for his teaching and artistic contributions to the city of New Orleans. In 2006 Osborne was honored by New Orleans Magazine as one of the “Fifty People to Watch” for 06′.

In 2007 his Official Jazz & Heritage Festival Poster quickly became one of the most sought after posters of the year.  In 2008 Osborne partnered with Nike to design a poster and the first New Orleans Air Force 1 tennis shoe. His association with Nike lead to a relationship with the NBA Hornets of which Osborne designed the first official Hornets poster. Be it art connoisseur or causal collector, Terrance Osborne’s art continues to be highly sought after.

(Source: Terranceosborne.com bio). 

Born in California and raised in Virginia, he began Painting while completing his Undergraduate Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, B.A. International Relations in Latin America. In Lieu of pursuing a career in his field of study he opted to Backpack around America in search of somewhere artist’s belong. He found New Orleans to be the perfect place to plant his artistic seed and take the Louisiana landscape as his muse. You won’t find him in the studio, he prefers to work directly from nature, whether it be down the Bayou or in the streets of the French Quarter. With the inspiration and support from his local community He supports himself solely with his painting. In 2014 He began his Mentorship under Internationally Renowned Artist Akio Hanafuji in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico. 

John Bukaty sees life, and the special events it’s made of, in distinct moments.  He sees things one frame at a time. Whether it’s the enjoyable chaos of a music festival, the intense competition of a college basketball game, or a tender moment at a family event, Bukaty sees them all, in portraits.  And like a distortion pedal that adds fuzziness and growl to a guitar, Bukaty translates these singular sights onto a canvas using a self-taught method of blurred lines and vibrant colors. 

Bukaty was born and raised in Kansas City, Mo. The son of an NFL player and stay-at-home mom, he grew up drawing, in mud at first, and then with paper andpencil. He worked diligently on his drawing in grade school and learned as much as he could, on his own, and also with the help of his mother who took him regularly to local museums so he could study the work of the masters up close. His restless energy translated perfectly into football and he became a standout in high school and college. Racked with permanent injuries during his college years, he quit football, and college, and decided on a life in business, just as his father had done after his NFL career was over. A concert in Colorado changed his mind about his business career. He knew he had to get back to art. He started painting again and at the same time started a weekly live show at a local brewpub. The Thursday night event grew, and it eventually led to other live painting commissions. Encouraged by friends and fans, and looking for a bigger stage, Bukaty moved to his beloved Colorado and became the Rock n’ Roll Painter. Denver’s location and rabid music fans have made it a favorite among touring musicians of all genres, and Bukaty quickly became a popular fixture at local concerts. He’s done portraits of Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Widespread Panic and Blues Traveler. Bukaty’s work is collected by prominent actors, musicians, and athletes including Matthew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz, J.J. Cale, John Popper, Billy Butler, and Coach Bill Self. Corporate collectors include Western Union, Chipotle and Comcast. 

Bukaty went to India in 2009 and created 100 paintings in 100 days and his travels and works were recorded in a short film documentary. Bukaty donates his time and talent as often as he can. Numerous organizations have been benefactors of his work including the YMCA, Children’s Mercy Hospital, HALO Foundation, and Tipitinas Foundation. In 2012, Bukaty created Kartma (a fusion of the words karma and art), a philanthropic organization designed to combine art, philanthropy and community. Bukaty captures dynamic moments at live events on canvas, and then donates his original creations.

Bukaty paints people in their times, and in their places. He paints them in the middle of loud, busy and cherished events. He paints to preserve moments, forever etched in color on canvas, and in the minds of attendees. He creates beautiful and durable pieces of history for the ages.

(Source: Johnbukaty.com)

At first glance, my artwork is recognized by rich pigments, light hearted narratives and detailed illustrations. What some don’t realize is that hidden beneath the surface you will find many layers of paint, along with deep rooted emotions that chronicle my life in a sort of illustrated journal. I embed my personal stories and experiences into each painting but I obscure them in a whimsical format to allow the viewer the opportunity to discover the meaning for their selves. I ask you to open your heart and mind to these underlying layers, in hopes that you’ll be surprised to find a deeper, unexpected connection to the work.

-Daniel Angeles