Picture Set Of The Month - February - The Paintings of Captain Beefheart

Though he ceased to be Captain Beefheart
when he stopped both making music and painting 
and chose the one talent - painting - full time.
His agent for selling his paintings said 'one career only.'.   

His friends said of him that from the second half
of the 1970's onward he showed early signs of
having the multiple sclerosis that made him use
a wheel chair in the 1990s and eventually
ended his life. It was affirmative pragmatism
for him to choose painting over performing music;
painting paid him more, gave him much more time
 to lead a creative self contained life
whilst allowing him to manage his health better.

Please left click here to see all the paintings 
by Don Van Vliet a/k/a Captain Beefheart
from 1962 to 2010, on the artist's website.