New Series of Paintings from David Frykman

Door County artist David Frykman has completed a new series of oil paintings featuring vintage tractors and farm equipment, sailboats and tugboats, and familiar landscapes from around Door County. David’s paintings and woodcarvings are shown alongside Lucas and Heather Frykman’s photography, and Steve Jorgenson’s pottery at the Frykman Studio Gallery on Highway 42 in Sister Bay.

Thanks to a most unfortunate event and subsequent visit to an excellent shoulder surgeon, David found himself last winter on an enforced sabbatical from his primary vocation of woodcarving. But if one can’t really carve wood one-handed, it turns out it is possible to put paint on a canvas with one arm in a sling. So, what to paint?

David’s first muse turned out to be those mid-century iron wonders that really transformed the world, the American farm tractor. Not the mighty air-conditioned marvels of today, but the smaller, unadorned, honest machines of David’s childhood. The ones that transformed the farmer’s lot from that of backbreaking labor to at least riding atop and directing the diesel workhorse. Though many are still hard at work tilling the soil, some have found places of honor parked alongside the byways of Door County.

David is all healed and carving again, but he now splits time between carving wood and painting.

For more information, visit door-county-photography.com or call 920.854.7351.