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Cornbread’s Critters
Written By: - NONE - | Issue: 2020/03 - March
Guineas – yes, guinea chicks and hens – have made Georgia folk artist John “Cornbread” Anderson famous around the world.
You can expect to see his guinea paintings anywhere and everywhere – magazine exposés, restaurants, hotels, private collections, etc. All this squawking about a three- pound bird!
For most collectors, the guinea painting, in some variation, is generally their first acquisition of his work.
For folks who are not familiar, the plumage of the guinea is gray/black and speckled with white. They have many specific characteristics common to only them. Guineas are the best pest control one can have, eating all kinds of insects, ticks, fleas, fire ants, spiders, worms, crickets, grasshoppers, etc., anything they can get their beaks on. They are very self-sufficient, foraging for their own food.
As for entertainment, guineas can be extremely comical; they have a personality all their own. Guineas love to watch their own reflections and can spend hours in self-absorption viewing themselves in glass windows and doors. Some owners place mirrors around the yard the guineas claim as their space.
For city dwellers and folks not accustomed to farm fowl, upon first seeing Cornbread’s guineas, they think it is a made-up “fun” bird painting, but to country folks, guineas are a way of life. Since Cornbread draws his art from his own personal experiences with nature and the world around him, guineas top the list as his most “frequent flyers” as he spent his childhood living with a yard full of these loud squawkers! His first pieces were very realistic and true to the color of the actual fowl, but over the years, he has had fun painting them in different colors where they take on the comical feature that is their nature.
To see a plethora of Cornbread’s guinea paintings, in both the original black and white or the fun, funky multicolor, stop by Around Back at Rocky’s Place at 3631 Highway 53 East in Dawsonville, Georgia. Call (706) 265-6030 or check online at aroundbackatrockysplace.com. Gallery hours are Saturdays from 11:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., and Sundays from 1:00 to 5:00 P.M.
Oh, and p.s., the gallery also has many other paintings of various fowl and other critters by Cornbread.
