JOHN LENNON
STEPHEN HOLLAND
TOM EVERHART
OPIE OTTERSTAD
BERNIE TAUPIN
KEVIN NEALON
"This positive human emotion of hope feels like the appropriate directions for the first print work released after almost 2 years"
Having Everhart’s paintings being chosen by a museum for their walls is always exciting but this particular museum show stands alone as something special. And we wanted to share it with you.
"The 'Sleepover Homies' are based on a trip away with several dozen friends and the difference it made just in one day, from morning to night." – Tom Everhart
Mike Trout, often referred to as the “the best major league baseball player on the planet”, is captured in Stephen’s latest portrait with the smile and ease (as well as the athletic prowess) that has led most experts to speculate that he might just be one of the best players ever to play the game.
I have wanted for many years to create works that share their brilliance but didn’t want to produce the same old sky landscape paintings that are still so common and offer nothing to learn. So, with Sparky’s (Charles Schulz) character of the flying ace, I found the perfect vehicle to present and demonstrate their beauty and power.
"Like many others, I’ve always understood that there were more important reasons for making art than just art world approval. Nonetheless, from the beginning I couldn’t’ help but wonder how uncomfortable the fit was going to be in the very small art world’s established taste of what art was at the time."
It seems very much like the world is one big round bubble bath comprised of an endless amount of smaller bubbles that we each all live in. Within these bubbles, a meaningful expression through which the personality of the person and the broad outlook of a group are visibly similar...
Posed along side painting of the world series celebration Dodger star of the winning team Clayton Kershaw.
