KADER BOLY

is. in. the. 

HOUSE

1st Annual Barkley Street Art Walk October 20

Kader and my friend Miss Paula

About 10 years ago, Mr. PV and I were on a trip to Sante Fe and had wandered out to the 

Sante Fe Opera where they have lots of artists' exhibits

This intriguing young man had some interesting things laid out and we went over for a look

and that began our enduring friendship.  

I do believe I said to him

"hey, wanna do an art show in Spearman Texas?"

he said yes

Kader demonstrates how he paints at an art show at Zulu Art Gallery

You see...Kader is from Africa...Burkina Faso to be exact and his style of painting is quite wonderful

he tears his canvas so that the edges are frayed, he mixes his own pigments and dyes

from things found in his village

clay

soil

leaves

sticks

all very natural and earthy

he then mixes that with ??? and some H20

and applies it with his hands

and then adds sticks and stones and other found natural objects to his mountains and bulls and village people

When we met him, he was 22, not much English (though he speaks 6 languages that now include fluent English....so make that 7)

his art was rolled up in a back pack and he had traveled to America 

flying by the seat of his artsy pants and ended up in 

Sante Fe

and now

Spearman Texas and Facebook on a regular basis

We love us some Kader!

I do believe there was a time when our Mattie wanted to marry him

and I don't blame her

but Kader is a wanderer, an artist, not a tinge of fear in his soul

the kind of personality that allows him to go about the world

creating and sharing art..the kind he sees and touches and tastes...with folks like us

and besides...I think Coach Been might have been somewhere in the picture

Yep...Kader is 

IN.THE.HOUSE.