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 DANNY
McBRIDE has spent his entire working life in the arts. He began his
journey with an illustrious music career that spanned more than three
decades. Jet-setting with celebrated stars to the planet’s most glamorous
locations, McBride played enormous venues. During his travels, he worked in
the company of luminaries like Natalie Cole, U2, Joe Cocker and Supertramp.
He earned the job as Chris de Burgh’s lead guitarist for 14 years and also
completed two records as a CBS recording artist.
McBride turned his considerable talents to a new challenge in more recent
years: the visual arts. The canvas is now his chosen medium for giving
expression to his creative drive. He has developed a strong reputation for
his arresting and immediately recognizable portraiture of women in hats. His
unique paintings have appeared in locales ranging from the walls of
Sotheby’s Auction House in New York to the houses of Hollywood celebrities.
McBride says, “I have been told that my paintings are dream like. I
appreciate that, because I use no models or props; the work comes totally
from within. I like to think that my paintings give people a sense of
well-being and something to spark the imagination.”
“I was once fortunate enough to attend a dinner party at the late Princess
Diana’s home. I half jokingly asked Diana’s mother, Francis Shand Kydd, if
she could use a couple of my paintings to fill the spaces between the
wonderful Gainsboroughs that adorned her walls. Her gracious response: ‘I
have nothing to do with the spaces; they are owned by the paintings
themselves.’ Her witty remark stuck with me and, although I am no
Gainsborough, I paint with the space in mind.”
Danny McBride’s original paintings are available exclusively at White Rock
Gallery. The Gallery, which celebrates its 20th year in 2009, carries a
strong selection of original paintings, serigraphs, etchings, ceramics,
bronzes and stone sculpture.
www.whiterockgallery.com
Danny, what can we say...YOU ARE A ROCK STAR STILL AND FOREVER!! Red Hats off
to you. |
