Brian Dowdall was born in 1948 in Anaconda, Montana. He left home in his early teens, and for many years led a nomadic life working as a jack-of-all-trades -- digging ditches, picking potatoes, tarring roofs, and working on a worm farm. He lived in railroad cars, caves, and goat sheds before making his way to Florida, where he has been living in the same beach house for the last two decades. Brian is best known for his cardboard and sand paintings of animal spirits. His menagerie includes alligators, armadillos, possums, dogs, cats, and snakes of every description. He sets each animal in a luminous field, or celebratory "aura" of color; his palette comes from "the sun, moon, fire, earth, trees, and water."
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