Put on a Happy Face Christopher Bales and the connections we embrace

and the connections we embrace and neglect

Gouache and watercolor on board

his work also sometimes incorporates aspects of mixed media

Elizabeth believes that painting is an extension of magical practice

He was born in Waterville Maine and at present lives in Peoria with his husband Tom and his two cats Gingerbread Princess Pumpkin-head

Put on a Happy Face Christopher Bales and the connections we embraceArtwork Info Oil 11 x 14 in. Framing included 2026 Lee Harvey Roswell is a self taught artist from Freefall, New York, whose work is noted for its blend of angst and humor. Themes of death and entropy, tribulation and futility run amok in his distinctly surreal, often slapstick often nightmarish world. The result is at once mocking and melancholic. For the past decade plus his attention has turned almost exclusively to oil painting, though it's always