This is one of those little back alleys that you will never see on a postcard. The brickwork was as much a bitch as having to lay it probably. The really cool part was the Confederate and Yellow Jessamine growing all over the same back wall.
This painting took me a while to finish but in the end it was worth it. I had painted these four children when they were just little babies on the beach. Well, they were typical teenagers when I was commissioned to do this piece. They are the children of Scott & Neel Hipp.
This great painting shows another lowcountry thunderstorm rolling in over the marsh. The with herons part refers to a small flock of little herons flying away from the storm - you can barely see them in the real painting.
You know how sometimes you just think about things that happened in the past as if they're right now or if they may just be impending. Did Yogi Berra say "it's Deja Vu all over again"? Well, everytime I see a cloud formation I know I will never see the same exact thing, ever. Here, in this climate though everything's possible. Maybe one day...
Johnson Hagood is a painter working in Charleston, South Carolina, in the luminist style. His paintings are influenced by the Hudson River School and primarily Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett, and Sanford Robinson Gifford. Hagood paints the rapidly disappearing barrier islands and marshes of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Frequently his canvases are in an elongated horizontal format, a format also favored by Heade, and include sunrises or sunsets, also another fleeting element in his work. The only human evidence in his paintings is the occassional light emitting from a far off land bank at dusk - a constant reminder of the eventual development of a vanishing landscape. His work is included in over two hundred private collections and in the collections of Bank of America, Bellsouth, City of Charleston, Carolina First Bank, Gibbes Museum of Art, Morris Museum of Art, Roper Hospital, Safety Kleen Corporation, & Wild Dunes Corporation.