Description
‘Seeing Red’ by Michael Patrick Bailey
Artist: Michael Patrick Bailey
Title: ‘Seeing Red’
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2024
About the Artwork:
Sometimes an image is just stuck in your head, at least it’s like that with me. I’ve had this image bouncing around my head for the better part of a year, and it just needed to be put down on paper. Or canvas, in this case. There’s a mating pair of horned owls that used to hoot around with me while I took my evening walk. Occasionally, I’d find one perched near a traffic light, bathed in red, as if analyzing my moves from an open-air dark room twenty feet in the air. Who? Who? – Michael Patrick Bailey
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Michael Patrick Bailey was born in Indianapolis and raised in the Miami Valley just south of Dayton, OH. A self-taught painter, his experience as a lifelong sportsman and lover of the outdoors blazed the trail for him to become an award-winning wildlife artist. Michael’s work strives to be more than bucolic landscapes and serene animals, it’s a study in aloneness — hoping to evoke memories of contemplative moments and quiet connection with the viewer, the artist, these creatures, and the places we all call home.
His wildlife and landscape works are featured in many private and public collections and have been shown in New York, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Salem, Cheyenne, Livingston, Honolulu, and beyond. He is an Associate Member of Oil Painters of America, American Impressionist Society, and the Hoosier Art Salon. He always wanted to be a cowboy.