“Georgia” Kyle Shiver

One morning in February 2007, Kyle Shiver aka “Georgia Kyle” awoke with a compelling urge to “paint”.  “I woke up with this overwhelming feeling that I had to paint something.”  A lifelong musician, “Georgia Kyle” Shiver’s journey into the art world was naturally through music.  Drawn to blues folk art, Kyle decided to try his hand at painting Blues Musicians and enjoyed the creative expression he found there.  Initially drawn to painting on non-traditional materials, his first pieces were on found objects.  He has since moved on to wood and cardboard with the occasional painting on canvas.  Most of his paintings are homage’s to the traditional Blues Greats whose music he admires, such as Blind Willie Mc Tell and Robert Johnson.  He does however paint abstracts and portraits—images that he believes are already present; he simply makes them visible to the human eye.

A self-taught artist, as well as an accomplished musician “Georgia Kyle” continues his night job as an American musician playing a new music that is called MARSHGRASS around Savannah, Georgia.   This music is a mixture of old country, blues and bluegrass and is also available at the Red Piano Too Art Gallery. 

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