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The Campbell House Gallery

I’m fortunate that my son, the owner of the Campbell House Air B&B in Mountour Falls, NY, located just a few yards away from the gorgeous Shequaga Falls, has offered me a vibrant and expanding gallery space where people can see and easily purchase my tangible original artwork.

If you’re in the Watkins Glen region of upstate New York this summer, here’s what’s available and forthcoming as of July 2025:

Blank Slate

Blank Slate

I’m working this summer with enamel on slate… this one is slowly emerging…

Moonlight mermaid

Moonlight mermaid

Acrylic on canvas

18 x 20

2023

$200

Divorce 1

Divorce 1

Oil on cardboard

9 x 12

2021

$100

Red moon

Red moon

A framed digital reproduction of this original watercolor is available at my cost.

Lady parts

Lady parts

Mixed media on canvas

8 x 10

2020

$75

A certain kind of despair

A certain kind of despair

A framed reproduction of this original watercolor is available for my cost.

Parfleche full of talking leaves

Parfleche full of talking leaves

Acrylic on canvas

12 x 16

2023

$200

To certain indigenous people, writing is often referred to as “talking leaves.” A parfleche is a container usually made of leather, a satchel or purse. Here, the carrier of the message is walking in the forest. The world is muted and his muscles are tired. He’s thinking about his burden: these little symbols written on paper that carry meaning. He wonders about that, as should we.

Long face

Long face

Watercolor on paper

9x14

2022

$100

(This from my false face series.)

Sacrifice

Sacrifice

Acrylic on canvas board

16 x 20

2024

$200

He knew something the rest of us didn't

He knew something the rest of us didn't

Acrylic on canvas board

16 x 20

2024

$200

A chorus line

A chorus line

Mixed media on canvas

16 x 20

2022

$200

Last-born son: emergence

Last-born son: emergence

Mixed media on canvas

18 x 24

2024

$300

Larry loses a leg

Larry loses a leg

Mixed media on canvas

18 x 24

2022

$300

I moved into an old mountain home in the late 1980’s and soon met a local fellow named Larry. He and I were quite the opposite in many ways, and I think part of why we got along so well for over thirty years was that we amused each other simply by being ourselves. He hauled stone and cut wood for me for and I told him weird stories that made him laugh. We watched each other’s children grow up. Then the diabetes struck him hard, and parts of him had to be amputated.

 Losing his left leg was the sign of even worse to come. But I still remember him driving his battery cart into the backyard as I was working on this oil piece. We shared some jerky and told stories about our fathers. Three months later he was dead.

Last-born son: and then...

Last-born son: and then...

Mixed media on canvas

18 x 24

$300

 

(Would like to sell the last two as a diptych—both for $500)

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A brand new america

A brand new america

Mixed media on canvas

8 x 10

$75

A singular(ity) kind of guy

A singular(ity) kind of guy

18 x 24

Acrylic on canvas

2023

$250

Conductor practicing his chops

Conductor practicing his chops

Acrylic on canvas

16x20

2024

$200

A simple story

A simple story

This is my most recent series, four panels of slate mounted on wood.

They are each roughly 9×14.

I’d like to sell them as a set for at least $900

A simple story: plate 1

A simple story: plate 1

A simple story: plate 2

A simple story: plate 2

A simple story: plate 3

A simple story: plate 3

A simple story: plate 4

A simple story: plate 4

Prisoners

Prisoners

Mixed media on canvas board

9x12

2018

$100

Welcome to the modern world. The nuclear family is back for more. Safe in their weird leopard skin costumes, they hold each other tightly behind the barbed wire of the new nation state. Their eyes are filled with nothing but hope for the promises of this new and better world soon to be. Each night they wait in quiet expectation for the midnight knocking at their closet door.

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