Charlie Lucas

TIN MAN, Charlie Lucas is a self-taught artist with an international reputation. He has been called an "outsider artist", a "folk artist", a "visionary artist" and a "found object artist". He may be all of these things but if you spend enough time with TIN MAN you will discover that he is a toymaker and a storyteller.

Toymaking was TIN MAN's first creative outlet. Born in 1951 in Birmingham, AL and one of 14 children, Charlie found that if he and his siblings wanted toys he had to create them.

Title: Spirits Materials: Solvent based paints on fiberglass Artist's comments: One side of the fish has fish swimming up the stream and the other side has spirits swimming upstream. Some of the spirits even missed the bus.