Original, one of a kind oil paintings by Floyd Bassett a 76 year-old upstate New York artist who paints because he loves to paint and he paints what he pleases his eye at the time mostly animals, birds, flowers, landscapes, but if Floyd knows someone who likes one thing in particular he will paint that and surprise the person with it.  He also enjoys paintings covered bridges and lighthouses.

Until now, his paintings have only been known and shown in upstate New York. There are several in private collections across the area.     Many have been given to relatives and friends as gifts.  Floyd has been painting for over 30 years and is passionate about his

work.  He derives a sense of accomplishment and pride from it and when he sees that someone enjoys what he has done that is what gives him the drive to do more.    

All canvases are beautifully framed, named, dated and ready for hanging.  

Tree mushrooms or artists conches as they are known to the artists are gathered by Floyd and his relatives and friends in the Green Mountains of Vermont and the mountainous areas of upstate New York, they are dried for several months to a year and then painted with an original oil painting and make beautiful gifts or additions to one’s own art collection.  These are absolutely beautiful and painstaking prepared and painted, they are definitely one-of-a-kind.   Floyd actually stumbled on this when someone gave him an old mushroom that that someone had started to carve something on and he took it home and painted it.  The next morning the paint had disappeared and he was shocked so he painted it again and the same thing happened, the mushroom just sucked all the paint right up.  It took him quite a while to come up with the right technique but once you see one of these beautiful masterpieces, you will see why the painstaking effort was worth it.  

Besides painting, family and friends keep this man young.