Update

Hello, I want to thank you for visiting my website. I am starting a new series that is a subject close to my heart, the Western Theater of the American Civil War. This will include both Northern and Southern subject matter. This theater of the war has often been neglected and I want to remedy that. The first print of the series portrays the 7th Florida Battle of Dallas during the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. The second portrays the Tennessee Division of Bushrod Johnson in the Confederate breakthrough near the Brotherton Farm at the Battle of Chickamauga in Georgia 1863. The third print, the furling of a Confederate regimental flag after the surrender of General Johnson to General Sherman at Bennett’s Place near Durham, North Carolina in 1865.

The fourth painting is of the Battle of New Hope Church GA. It will show Stovall’s Georgia Confederate line in the cemetery at New Hope Church receiving the assault thrown at them by Union troops of Gen. William T. Sherman. Prints are gilcee on canvas.

In 2018 I was commissioned by the country of Baldwin, Alabama to create two large paintings for the celebration of their bicentennial. The first was the Battle of Ft. Blakeley, a Civil War battle that took place on April 9, 1865. This was the part of the campaign by the North to capture Mobile. The second painting is a War of 1812 subject portraying the British Fleet’s first attempt to capture Mobile. The painting will show the H.M.S. Hermes attempt to silence the American fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay. This fort, Ft. Bowyer, destroyed the Hermes and kept the British at bay. The fort is located where a newer fort, Ft. Morgan, now stands.

Both are interesting subject matter and I feel honored to have been chosen to paint them. The Blakeley is done. It is 40″x60″ on canvas. Ft.Bowyer is now a work in progress. It will be the same size as Blakeley.

Special thanks goes to Mike Bunn and Brian DesRochers for their help in bringing the battle at Blakeley alive with their knowledge and their enthusiasm of the project.

I want the place a heads up to y’all, it is the Carnton Plantation at Franklin, TN. If you have not visited the City of Franklin, you really ought to. The City is doing a fantastic job in it’s preservation of the 1864 battle that took place there. The Carnton Mansion’s gift shop carries a set of three small giclee prints i did for them. One is of Confederate troops marching by the mansion during the Battle of Franklin, the second shows Federal troops streaming by the Carter House before the battle, and the last Confederate Cemetery on the Carnton property after the War in 1866. Please support them and other Civil War sites in their goal to preserve our past so future generations can visit and understand their roots