Original artwork description:

Bee Balm Butterfly is part of a series depicting vacations and leisure lifestyle.. I use subdued colors and loose brush strokes, as in most of my paintings, in order to create the mood and feel of spontaneity. Art buyers may see a symbolic reference to prominent 20th century American painters like George Bellows, John Sloan, Isabell Bishop, and Edward Hopper. 

12 x 16 original Urban Realism oil painting on panel by Darren Thompson. 

AWARDS and SHOWS
100 Curators Collection Saatchi Online 2012
Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition 2010
Chicago Artist Coalition Group Show 2008
Society of Illustrators 2001, 2002
Laguna Beach Echoes and Visions 2002
Louisville Art Association 2002
American Visions 2002
Hoosier Salon 2002

ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS
Southwest Art Magazine Artist to Watch 2005
Art of the West 2002
Best of American Oil Painters, Volume 2, 2009

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Harris Bank
Hickory Point Bank

Materials used:

oil on linen

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