Mike Ousley

Cumberland Gap

2023

This is an unframed original painting on wood panel. Micheal Ousley is a native of Appalachia, originally from the coalfields of Southeastern Kentucky. Having traveled all around the Western coal towns of Virginia, West Virginia and the Blue Ridge as well, he has formed a deep connection to the mountains. “My father was a coal miner and many of my uncles and cousins worked in mining or farming. I tend to view my paintings as ballads for the rough living and hardscrabble existence found in the Central Appalachian Coal region. The Media has always jumped at the opportunity to show poverty and decay in the coalfields of Kentucky. I view my work as being built around a pathos and understanding of the downtrodden and discarded; a poetry for the underdog." Mike says, "I decided I wanted to take my painting back to the way I created images as a child, based on memory and simplified. My biggest inspiration is the visionary and Folk art of Kentucky and other Southern Folk artists. I spent a good deal of time in the Kentucky Folk...

Micheal Ousley is a native of Appalachia, originally from the coalfields of Southeastern Kentucky. Having traveled all around the Western coal towns of Virginia, West Virginia and th...

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Though the action of painting geological formations using abstraction, organic textures and luminous color, I can convey how natural physical forces work to shape a constantly changi...

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A breath of fresh air (Un soplo de aire fresco). Symbolic acrylic paint on panel Colorful Folk Art Landscape with figure. Dimension art cm.: (H) 43 x (W) 53 x (D) 6 cm. The pictu...

"If it was wind, I would bathe in your breeze", symbolic figurative landscape with figures. Acrylic and mixed media on wood panel. Dimesions: (H) 44 x (W) 57 x (D) 5 cm. The picture...

"The way home" (El camino a casa), Symbolic Folk Art, Acylic and mixed media on wood panel. Dimensions cm : (H) 90 x (W) 122.5 x (D) 4 cm. The colors are a little bit stronger and greener than they appear in the photo. The pictures of Raquel Fariñas...

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