Welcome to Brown County Folk Art!

This website contains the artwork of David Green. Mediums include, oils on canvas and weathered barnwood, and charcoal on paper.



"I find spirituality and rapture in the unassuming and in nature. Its the simple things that take my breath away. My paintings reflect these haste depictions, and by doing so, I'm able to share spirituality and rapture with the viewer."
 
     David Green was born on the southside of Pittsburgh near the bank of the Monongahela River within the shadows of Pittsburgh's steel mills. The youngest of six children, he grew-up in an ethnic working-class neighborhood.
     At an early age he found natural talent and self expression in sports and art. Though he quickly learned to excel in sports, his art proved to be an evolutionary exploration of style and mediums.
As a young boy, he would sit for long periods of time with pencil and paper copying sports photos from "The Pittsburgh Press." (He attributes his ability to draw portraits today to those endeavours, so long ago).
     After high school, David traveled to Indiana and attended St. Meinrad College. It was at St. Meinrad that he experienced a renaissance of art. Under the tutelage of Benedictine monks David's art began to mature.
He learned discipline without confinement; beauty in the often overlooked; and the peace of mind that painting creates.
During summer breaks, from college, he continued to live in Pittsburgh and worked in the steel mills close to his home. He further supplemented his college expenses by trading his paintings for used text books.
     Shortly after college graduation, David lived a "bohemian" artist lifestyle. He became a freelance artist trading his art for room and board. He did courtroom drawings for judges. He sketched marriage ceremonies for wedding couples; showed at art fairs; etc.
     He returned to graduate school at Indiana University and earned a Masters of Science degree in 1982. He used this degree to teach in public schools while his art further evolved in quiet obscurity.
     Now retired from teaching, David's art has come full-circle. Once an avocation, it has now developed into a full-time vocation.
     Personally, David lives in a log cabin in Southern Indiana: adjacent to the Hoosier National Forest. Along with his wife and family they raise chickens and honey-bees while harvesting blackberries and fruit from their orchard.