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This is an abstract, acrylic, enamel paint and latex silicone caulk with mixed media on canvas. The artist was inspired by a beach vacation. Latex silicone caulk was mixed with a fine sand additive and paint for thickness. Also used were plastic bottles for dripping, paint brushes, paper towels, paper with advertisements, a wooden ruler for dripping paint, a gutter guard used for decorative purposes with enamel spray paint, a plastic funnel to create smaller circles and a 1800's era beer bottle to create the larger circles. Signed front and back.

Born in the small Northern Panhandle town of Glen Dale, West Virginia, gH FiLben studied art and music at an early age and loved the self abstract expressionism that painting allowed. He studied art and music throughout his childhood and continued through adulthood. He graduated from John Marshall High School and West Virginia University and is a veteran of the U.S. Army. gH FiLben has an original 48x60x1 abstract and mixed media on canvas called "One Green Circle" hanging proudly in Allen Hall on the WVU campus. Now residing in St. Louis, Missouri, he considers himself a self taught artist who works in a wide variety of mediums. His explosive paintings and mixed media art are self representing and unconventional. His stylistic leanings...