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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

Puffing up my Chest so I Can Peel it off my Back

Sometimes I like to make a painting with a simpler composition.

36” x 48” Oil on Canvas

I Hold My Nose and I Taste My Brain

I consider this painting to be some of my best work regarding technical ability, which surprises me because I rushed through it in three days for a showing.

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

Set From the Seeds Scattered From the Mists of the Past

I fell in love with this style of painting shapes for clothes. This painting is the counterpart to “Imposing Coherence on an Ineffable Experience.” I am sad to have sold her, but thankful.

48” x 60” Oil on Canvas

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