Abandoned on the steps of a Baptist Church in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, Gin Stevens Art career was born. Gin has been influenced by the deep southern culture that had surrounded him at an early age. Upon turning seventeen he took the Greyhound north for Chicago carrying with him dreams of enrolling at The Art Institute of Chicago. Where he soon found out that school was not for him and opted for the punk rock theory of doing it yourself. His work has echoes of certain literary and musical archetypes: the visionaries and hucksters that populate Flannery O? Connor?s Gothic southern landscape or the fevered imaginations that drive Faulkner?s characters, along with the songs of early Delta Blues musicians such as Charley Patton or Son House. The work is done all on scratchboard a primitive style of etching. Here he captures the mood of the dark and mysterious history of the south with haunting beauty. Gin now resides in Los Angeles where he has been creating work for private commission, album covers, and rock posters on top of also showing his art over the past several years at galleries in and around Los Angeles. http://www.printpop.com/ginstevens en-us http://www.printpop.com/1824&rss=1 <IMG border="0" src="http://www.printpop.com/thumbs/thumb_1824.jpg" alt="Junior Kimbrough" title="Junior Kimbrough"/> Scratchboard with Color Ink Wash - Work is of Bues Great "Junior Kimbrough" Beautiful piece for any Blues Enthusiast. http://www.printpop.com/1824 en-us http://www.printpop.com/1823&rss=1 <IMG border="0" src="http://www.printpop.com/thumbs/thumb_1823.jpg" alt="R.L. Burnside" title="R.L. Burnside"/> Scratchboard with Color Ink Wash - Work is of Blues Great R.L. Burnside done shortly after he passed away. http://www.printpop.com/1823 en-us http://www.printpop.com/1822&rss=1 <IMG border="0" src="http://www.printpop.com/thumbs/thumb_1822.jpg" alt="Untitled" title="Untitled"/> Scratchboard with Color Ink Wash - This piece was from a show in Los Angeles at the World Famous "La Luz De Jesus Gallery". Based on traditonal Folk Murder Ballads. http://www.printpop.com/1822