mangofandango | Roy Egg - proof that artists are sometimes eccentric!

This weekend, we went to Manchester, VT to go to the Northshire Bookstore with my parents and Emma, who turned 19 on the 2nd (thus, I am old, by the way). On the way there, we stopped at the gallery of Roy Egg. Now my dad had briefly explained this person before we went, but I had no idea what kind of wacky we were really talking about. Allow me to explain photographically.

That would be the outside of the gallery. It's right off the road somewhere in VT, and BAM CHECKERBOARD. Emma looks awfully calm for someone who is about to walk into THAT, doesn't she? :)

So, Roy's big thing is chickens.

Note: the chicken on the left is wearing mardi gras beads. (This chicken and Eleanor might have a lot in common!)

He really seems to like them. (Painted cakes also, but who wouldn't like that?)

I think he might worship them a little.

Ryan seems to like them, too. (PS - Note the rooster with the leis.)

The artist himself, demonstrating his magical cow-moving window. The window, you see, is painted to look like a cow-friendly field, and there are cows painstakingly painted on what appeared to be paper cutouts, which he then stuck to the window. You can move your cows around!

Roy apparently has some of his art (a painted egg, I believe) on display in the White House. If you go to visit his shop, he will tell you stories and give you what Dad referred to as "his spiel", which is a series of canned jokes and chicken-related commentary. I cannot tell you how surreal this experience was, but I am certainly glad I had it. Plus, you all now have a source for painted chicken heads! My mother bought two.

If you'd like to see more photos, you can find all the ones I took here.