About Us...
The very first Art Festival I did a customer asked me what was the theme of my art? It was the first time I had ever thought about it. I didn’t have an answer. It took me awhile to figure out why I painted what I painted. The following paragraph will try to explain my theme.
My story begins April, 1981. It was my second week at the Atlanta Journal and Constitution as an advertising artist. It was my first job after graduating from the University of Georgia’s graphic design program. The first week after I started at the AJC I had the pleasure to hold the door open for a very attractive new female employee-Karen Bach. It was her very first day at the AJC’s Northlake office. And like myself, her first job after graduating from the University of Florida. My hair was long, I hadn’t shaved in a couple of weeks, and I was dressed in an old t-shirt and blue jeans (my standard outfit at the time). I drove an old VW bug with one side dented in. Karen thought I was the office janitor. To make matters worse, being a proud graduate of the University of Florida, she had little use for a Georgia Bulldog. Fortunately for me, we were the newest employees in the office, so our manager made us stay in the office together during lunch to answer the phones. Five years later we were married.
This collection of oil paintings and watercolors are a journal of the experiences that Karen and I have shared together and later shared with our boys over the last 27 wonderful years. The very first painting was of this Windjammer cruise Karen and I took together twenty-six years ago. It was during that Windjammer cruise we realized we wanted to spend our lives together.
With the arrival of Ben and Reid we became a family. Both Ben and Reid showed an early interest in my art and started drawing as soon as they were able to hold a pencil.
We hope you explore our web gallery and enjoy our art collection of Popple family memories.