The next Highwaymen and Florida Art Show will be held from 10 a.m. The Highwaymen paintings can be found at a variety of galleries in Vero Beach, including Rennick Auctions, Manor Auctions, and Florida Art Auction. “He was an uncle to us first, then an artist next.” “He got a chance to see his paintings do well when he was alive,” Vernon Tynes said. The painting shows women in headwraps and colorful garb sitting by the lake beneath a brilliant orange sky, cooking food over a campfire. “Bean” Backus, hangs on the wall near the staircase at the Indian River County Main Library. One of Gibson’s paintings, which is a rendition of an art piece by his mentor landscape artist Albert Earnest A.E. Gibson’s work made its way into the Rockefeller Art Collection, an ensemble of more than 1,600 art pieces collected worldwide the gallery is based in New York. Vernon Tynes said James Gibson’s paintings would eventually go on to sell for $15,000 to $20,000 at auctions. James Gibson holds up his painting of a Florida beachside sunset in an undated photo. Some of the paintings included things Floridians might see looking out of a window in the state wilderness a bird, an alligator, a woman sitting inside a white old-style Corvette and a family relaxing underneath a Poinciana tree. Vernon Tynes recalled going to James Gibson’s house in 2017 in Fort Pierce and working with him to create a variety of images on different canvases. Vernon Tynes said he got the opportunity to paint with James Gibson several times, and Freddie Gibson gave him his first invite to an art show to sell his paintings. The siblings said they were close to Gibson and motivated by him, as well as their other uncle Freddie Gibson, who was also a painter. “We listen to spiritual music, jazz, rhythm and blues, country music, anything uplifting when painting. Our mother told us the same thing,” Vernon Tynes said. “Our grandmother used to say when you get up, pray before you do anything else. He said his grandmother would put on Mahalia Jackson, the American gospel singer known as the “Queen of Gospel Song” and considered one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century. Vernon Tynes said he plays spiritual music before he starts on a painting. The siblings own Dobae Art and Vernon Tynes owns Sunset Art Studio LLC, both based in Vero Beach. Now, Dominique and Vernon Tynes – both Vero Beach High School graduates – are full-time painters and art business owners, selling picturesque Florida landscape paintings similar to the ones originated by the Highwaymen. Vernon Tynes and Dominique Tynes, nephew and niece of Florida Highwayman James Gibson, hold up their paintings featured at the gallery at the Vero Beach Art Club. Tynes aims to instill her passion for painting into the kids at her class, the Highwaymen Kids Camp, which was held this week. Tynes, motivated by her uncle, reiterated his statement, saying that young artists should find something that inspires them, keep going and to be their own motivation. He was quoted in an interview on, where he said “the more you paint, the better you get.” The Highwaymen were inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2004, and the next year Gibson received the Florida Ambassador Art Award. Gibson’s paintings were hung in the White House, the Florida State Capitol, the Florida Supreme Court, and two can be seen in the 2002 movie Catch Me If You Can starring Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio. The artists traveled the state taking their pieces on the road and selling the artwork door-to-door or out of the trunks of their cars, creating a following. In the mid-1950s, the Highwaymen began painting Florida sunsets, waterscapes, marshes and inlets. Her uncle, James Gibson, was one of the original Florida Highwaymen, a group of self-taught, world-renowned Black landscape artists from Fort Pierce and Wabasso. The love of painting runs through the blood of Tynes’ family. This is a good element for the community.” They were already artists before they came,” said Dominique Tynes, 38, of Vero Beach, who teaches painting classes at a week-long camp at the Vero Beach Art Club. The (students) can release their thoughts. The artists, ages five to 11, started off using yellow, orange and red as they carefully illustrated tropical Florida landscapes on the canvases and, uniquely, their hats. Student Thaler Christianson shows his hands mixed with different colors after painting a Florida landscape on a canvas Tuesday, June 6, 2023, during the Highwaymen Kids Camp.
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