Oil, Acrylic & Digital
gene Pinder : art
Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Hello. Thank you for visiting my website. Feel free to browse around and view my work. To see each painting in its entirety, click on a category and then click on the thumbnail.
There are more than 200 pieces here. The vast majority are early works while I experimented and practiced different techniques.
The Digital Animals were created while messing around with an old software program.
Except for some introductory classes at the Huntsville Art Museum, I am largely self-taught. Most of my development has been through trial-and-error (mostly error).
I’ve sold a fair number of my paintings at local art fairs — mostly smaller pieces. No gallery showings yet. Still working on it.
I’ve added original artwork by my grandfather in the Legacy section. He was a tough as nails, body-and-fender man who painted landscapes and flowers in retirement. He also sold his art at Miami street shows and used the proceeds to fly to Vegas and gamble. When he ran out of cash, he came home and painted more pieces. Interesting character, to say the least.
Enjoy.
The flooding in and around New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 devastated the city. St. Bernard Parish was particularly hard hit.
Nature reveals itself in the shadows and light.
This is a small piece was something of an accident. I saw a photo of a ridge of evergreens, but decided to paint them over a failed abstract piece I had created earlier and the result was this combination.
This painting is an impression of the edge of the Neuse River where it flows just below the dam in Raleigh, North Carolina. I camped out in the early morning hours one summer and took a number of photographs, then came back home and painted many of them.
I rarely paint in a single monotone, but felt it was appropriate given the amount of snow and ice in this view. This painting also has special meaning. It was sold to a neighbor and dear friend of ours – who kept it in her apartment until the day she died.
This painting started out as an abstract. I was trying to combine blue and green colors with different shapes. But as it progressed, the three fish emerged. It’s one of my favorite paintings.
The painting to the left was done by my grandfather in the late 1960s. The one on the right is my version.
This is my car, at least it used to be until the repair costs far exceeded its value and I sold it to a Swiss fellow. It’s a 1960 Austin Healey Sprite, affectionately known as a “Bugeye.” Fun little car. I didn’t really fit into it (especially with the top up), but I managed and endured. I miss driving the back roads with the top down and the wind sweeping around my face. I don’t miss waiting an hour for a tow truck to take me back to the repair shop after my engine sputtered and died in the middle of nowhere. Great face, though, don’t you think?