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Danny McBride's lady in red a cover girl!

Alberta based magazine, "Rising Women" recently featured Danny McBride's painting, "On the Terrace" as their cover article. Inside they did a short biography about the artist. Congrat's Danny!!

Visit the gallery today if you would like a copy of this issue. See below for article.

Artists Bio...
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DANNY McBRIDE has spent his entire working life in the arts. He began his journey with an illustrious music career that spanned more than three decades. Jet-setting with celebrated stars to the planet’s most glamorous locations, McBride played enormous venues. During his travels, he worked in the company of luminaries like Natalie Cole, U2, Joe Cocker and Supertramp. He earned the job as Chris de Burgh’s lead guitarist for 14 years and also completed two records as a CBS recording artist. McBride turned his considerable talents to a new challenge in more recent years: the visual arts. The canvas is now his chosen medium for giving expression to his creative drive. He has developed a strong reputation for his arresting and immediately recognizable portraiture of women in hats. His unique paintings have appeared in locales ranging from the walls of Sotheby’s Auction House in New York to the houses of Hollywood celebrities. McBride says, “I have been told that my paintings are dream like. I appreciate that, because I use no models or props; the work comes totally from within. I like to think that my paintings give people a sense of well-being and something to spark the imagination.” “I was once fortunate enough to attend a dinner party at the late Princess Diana’s home. I half jokingly asked Diana’s mother, Francis Shand Kydd, if she could use a couple of my paintings to fill the spaces between the wonderful Gainsboroughs that adorned her walls. Her gracious response: ‘I have nothing to do with the spaces; they are owned by the paintings themselves.’ Her witty remark stuck with me and, although I am no Gainsborough, I paint with the space in mind.” Danny McBride’s original paintings are available exclusively at White Rock Gallery. The Gallery, which celebrates its 20th year in 2009, carries a strong selection of original paintings, serigraphs, etchings, ceramics, bronzes and stone sculpture. www.whiterockgallery.com Danny, what can we say...YOU ARE ROCK STAR STILL AND FOREVER!! Red Hats off to you.