The Top 100

The Top 100 started as a hobby; a fan adoring his musical heroes and paying tribute by making portraits of them. The hobby became obsession and the project went from the boy’s room into the art world. But I'm still that fan, it's about them in the end, their music, and not about me.

Sunday, April 20, 2025

11 Paintings from 2025

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More and more I tend to only paint from those photographs that in which I find some human truth, figures who appear to carry the weight of t...
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Saturday, December 14, 2024

A handful of important people

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Laurie Spiegel Through the LP New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media, I have been aware of Laurie Spiegel since the mid-1980s. It was t...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

Sound??

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk, oil on canvas, 10x20" Some of Dick Fontaine's recordings of Rahsaan Roland Kirk for his film Sound?? belong to...
Sunday, November 3, 2024

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  Cover Image from Musique Proto-Indochinoise Musique Proto-Indochinoise - Recueillie Chez Les Moïs Des Hauts Plateaux Du Viet-Nam is a reco...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

De Klankbron

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"Lahu" cover image, 20x10 inches, 2024 De Klankbron is een wekelijks digitaal muziekprogramma toegewijd aan ethnologische muziek ...
Monday, September 2, 2024

Girl With Gun?

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Dani people, 20x10 inches, oil on canvas, 2024 I'm quite pleased with this painting of a Dani woman from the Baliem Valley of Western Pa...
Friday, August 2, 2024

A name!

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Wambustrik, mourning. 20x10 inches, oil, 2024. "M é ditation de Wambustrik sur la tombe de son fils, mort il y a peu de temps." [C...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

My-This, My-That, Myself (Redemption)

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The full caption below the photograph that I used for the painting above reads: "Ill. 6: A Shaman of the Semoq-Beri tribe with the bam...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Senoi-Shipobo-Sanapana-Bassa

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  Cover image of An Anthology of South-East Asian Music           The above painting illustrates a recording of a Semoq Beri shaman from a v...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

R.I.P. James Chance

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James Chance, c. 2006 Saddened by the passing of the great James Chance (aka James White, James Siegfried) on June 18th at the age of 71 aft...

Een kloddertje roze hier...

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  Hermeto Pascoal, 12"x12", oil on canvas, 2024 Tante Til of the Knots family is always a favorite of mine to reference when teach...
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Les Deux Frederics

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Frederic Chopin, oil on canvas, 6"x6", 2024 I always wanted to glob on paint like the expressionists did more than a hundred years...
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