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.
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.