Artist Jim Thompson at Drawing Board Gallery

Recently I saw the work of Mixed Media Artist Jim Thompson at the Drawing Board Gallery in Yorba Linda that I thought would be of some interest. He calls his work Reclaimed/Redeemed which is very interesting to me because I really enjoy when artists used recycled found objects in their work.

But I have to be honest, what really drew me to his pieces where the clotheslines.  I grew up in the late 50's and 60's when my mother used to hang our clothes out to dry.  It's such a wonderful, vivid memory, one of my first actually, so when I see it in an art work it really tugs on my heart stings. 

 I don't usually like religious artwork, but his references to religion are so subtle to be almost unnoticeable.

I don't usually like religious artwork, but his references to religion are so subtle to be almost unnoticeable.

All the pieces above have been assemblages but this last work seems to be part self-portrait, part collage, and part painting, with another wonderful clothesline.