Mardi Gras by Floyd Snyder (bio below)

15 x 30 Inch Original Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas

This item will arrive fully stretched, museum wrapped, ready to hang with or without additional framing. 

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About this image:

Mardi Gras is an original abstract acrylic painting on stretched canvas. It is contemporary abstract. Contemporary abstracts are making a large impact on the market place. 

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Floyd Snyder

Floyd was born and raised in the north woods of Wisconsin where he learned a great appreciation for the vast and alluring outdoors and all wonders and color in nature. He made his way to California when he volunteered for the military. He is a Vietnam era veteran having served in the United States Air Force. He is also proud to have served as a communication specialist on the USNS Mercury, a tracking ship that worked on the Apollo moon landing. The highlight of that experience was actually getting to hear the live discussion of the astronauts and mission control. Having the experience of discovering California and working on the Apollo moon landing tracking ship located in and around Australia, opened a whole new world and broadened his horizons.

Floyd having met his wife, Barbara, in Santa Maria, California, settled down in the Central Coast after his tour of duty and saw a whole new world of the bounties of nature. For over 25 years Floyd operated three picture frame studios and art galleries in the Santa Maria area. It was during that time when he started taking photography seriously. He originally started framing his work only to serve as samples of what kinds of framing could be done, and it just took off from there.

In his own words, “I was pleasantly surprised when those samples started selling. That encouraged both my wife and I to enroll in photography classes, and we started framing and selling more of our own work”.  

“I try not to take things too seriously and especially taking photographs. I shoot things that I think are interesting to me at the time but may not make much sense to anyone else. That's okay with me. If you see something you like and want to buy one of my images, I sure appreciate it and that part I do take seriously. But mostly I am just sharing images, things I see and hope that others too will see the natural beauty in them.”