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This series is a living, evolving collaboration between painting and music—especially the songs of Brian Fallon and The Gaslight Anthem. The process is intuitive and emotional. I don’t plan I pay attention and respond. Each piece reveals its story through layers, textures, and lyrics, often forming cinematic scenes within the canvas.

Music isn’t just inspiration—it’s a co-creator. I play the canvas like a washboard at a kitchen party. Paint pens become shaker eggs. Palette knives tap to the beat.

Most of the characters emerged from lyrics. As I paint, the story unfolds—part fiction, part notstrangely real. It changes as I do. Some paintings take years. Some are set aside for months and then show their place the series later. Everything is in progress. Everything can change.

The series is called Diamond Sinatras. It’s about joy, connection, and the invisible thread between artists who may never meet but still find each other—across songs, across canvases, across time.

That thread is love.
What I see is one version of the story.
What you see is yours.