Babe Ruth Says, Hey Kid! Show Me Whatcha Got! This painting is NOT intended to be a portrait of Babe Ruth. It is a painting of a cracked and rusted cast-iron penny...

Eastern Shore This painting, which took three months to complete, is probably the best painting I’ve done in many years. Certainly, it is the most complicated...

Along The Shore Growing up near the ocean, and now, after 20 years living on a mountaintop, I live on a marsh, just 10 minutes from the beach. It’s where I go...

Books and Cap’n Hanks Oysters When I found the “Cap’n Hanks” oyster can, I couldn’t wait to design a painting around it. Cap’n Hanks’ Oysters were...

Oyster Catcher, Oyster Can, Oyster Books I’ve had this old Oyster Catcher decoy in my studio window for probably 20 years, knowing I would use it in a painting...

Talbot County Oyster Cans This new painting was created to be shown at the Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland. Easton is in Talbot County, which also includes...

Tea with the Hedgehog In the early 1990s, during a ramble around Europe, I bought the tiny Hedgehog that’s in this painting in Germany for my daughter Tracy. It...

Native Sons “Native Sons” Original 12 x 32” I’ve had the idea for this painting for a long time. If you follow my work, you know that I have done many bookshelves...

Corner Cupboard This is a large, brand-new painting, the result of an idea I’ve had for quite a while. My artist brain works in strange ways that I can’t explain!...

Bayeux Antiquities This is another painting that came out of a European trip that Sam and I took in 2013. While Paris was great, really the most enjoyable and rewarding...

One Tomato Three days before she passed away a couple of years ago, my late wife, Sam, was in her happy place, her garden. I have tried to keep that garden going,...

Oyster Cans Over the years, I’ve collected many kinds of antiques, ranging from old decoys, books, and corkscrews, to primitive furniture, stained glass windows,...

Books and the ‘Ruby Ford This painting was created for the Waterfowl Festival, the prestigious art show held every year in November in Easton, Maryland. I’ve...

Eastern Shore Classics Anyone familiar with my work knows that I’m something of a packrat, and over the years I’ve collected many kinds of antiques, ranging...

Madelaine Francois’ Favorite Chair While rambling around the countryside in Normandy a couple of years ago, intentionally and pleasantly lost, Sam and I saw a...

This painting is kind of a look back at the early days of surfing, which for me began in 1963 when I was in high school. Three or four of us would get up at the...

On a recent ramble around Europe, my wife Sam and I spent a couple of days in Normandy. We rented a car and after visiting the D-Day beaches we got intentionally...

I used to spend a lot of time on the Eastern Shore in Maryland and Virginia. Every November, for more than 25 years I exhibited my paintings at The Waterfowl Festival...

This painting is the second original from our recent “Normandy” adventure. Sam and I stayed in Bayeux for several days and used it as our home base for day trips...

Early in my career when I lived in Boone, I probably painted every barn and old mill in the North Carolina mountains, eastern Tennessee and southwest Virginia. Most...