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Oil Paintings & Other Creative Endeavours by N.B.Derro

My work explores ideas of absurdity and surrealism without much context in an attempt to create a setting for the viewer or listener to form their own interpretations.

Less Not More

Self-Applied Edicts of Apathy and Fed by a Cynic

This is the best thing I’ve ever made.

36” x 48” Oil on Canvas

Nothing Better Articulated Than a Singular Moan

Big Hair, Big Lady

36” x 48” Oil on Canvas

Dumbing the Inner-Mind Down for Pleasure, Is that Masturbation?

This was the last painting I made in Sudbury before moving away for a residency in LA. It’s a guy with a bird, nothing more.

36” x 48” Oil on Canvas

I am DOG

a short series of dog paintings

I am a Young Boy Shivering in an Outgrown Egg-Shell Nest, My Breath Stinks of Milk and Wet Barn

36” x 48” Oil on Canvas

I am a Dear Friend of Wild Rivers, a Perennial Voyager

36” x 48” Oil on Canvas

I am Leaving This Messy Organ That Was My Body Behind, and I am Hollowing Out a Mass for Another Form

36” x 48” Oil on Canvas

I Need You to Touch My Cheek Before I Go to Sleep

This is one of 12 paintings I’m currently showing throughout a residency at a gallery in DTLA. Painted homes because I miss home, I guess.

36” x 48” Oil on Canvas

Shop for Originals

Varying sizes of oil paintings on canvas are available for you to look at or buy if that’s your thing.