Paintings first: two decades of them, now hung in a gallery you can walk through. Then the worlds that grew out of the same practice: virtual galleries for other artists, the books where the canvas ran out of room, and an entire universe that explores my creations in immersive ways.
“My soul sits in the shadows of my mind, watching the lights of life project onto the subconscious theater.”
Paint is where I stop pretending.
A handful of pieces that sit close to the center of my practice – quiet meditations, hard questions, and small reminders to feel more than you analyze.
A solitary figure on a vividly lit path beneath a star-studded sky – a meditation on solitude, resilience, and the way memory can still glow in the dark.
You can walk through it now.
The whole archive is hung inside a first-person gallery standing on a headland above the sea — every painting on a wall, at scale, with room to stand back from it. Watch the sunrise from the terrace, the sunset falling across the court where the Self Work series hangs, and deep space from the star deck. It runs on a desktop with WASD and the mouse, and on a phone with on-screen controls.
Twenty years, no captions.
Scroll through a wall of nearly two decades of paintings – early experiments, turning points, and quiet favorites. No labels, no prices, just a flood of color and feeling.
Enter the archives wallThe monster ate well for years.
The “Self Work” series is a collection of introspective mixed media pieces that delve into the complexities of identity, healing, and transformation. Each painting is a visual acknowledgement of aspects of my ego which I am aware of and patiently assessing.
Truth is pain. Pain is growth. Growth is character. In 2019, I changed my life forever. I decided to become sober from an entire way of living, thinking, and numbing. This series sits at the crossroads of that decision and everything it demanded from me.
Much like painting is an artful process, so is the life experience. These works became a mirror for the inner monster, the friend in the shadows, and the permissions I grant myself.
These paintings came from a sober look in the mirror and asking myself questions only I could think to ask, and answering with paint when words weren’t enough. The Book of Shadow Work is the written companion to that same process.
Click through each painting and its writing. When you’re ready to go deeper into this journey, The Book of Shadow Work continues the conversation.
The difficulties of having relationships that are honest and healthy when I am arrogant or narcissistic.
When I am selective in hearing, I feed the monster only what it wants to hear, instead of being open to opportunities for growth.
The canvas ran out of room.
Paintings led to stories; stories led to books. These two volumes carry decades of work, reflection, and the shadow conversations behind the canvas.
A collection that gathers paintings like “Poetry of Solace”, “Adonis”, “Veritas”, “Path of Privilege”, and many more into one place – pairing imagery, narrative, and the questions that shaped them.
I didn’t write this book to start another “project.” I wrote it because there were days when getting out of bed felt like negotiating with a shadow I couldn’t name. The Book of Shadow Work is part story, part mirror, part workbook – you’ll meet figures like the Boy, the Girl, the Cloaked Figure and the Monster, then use guided prompts to explore your own fear, resistance, creativity, and capacity for self‑love. It isn’t a quick fix; it’s a quiet room where artists, overthinkers, and the quietly exhausted can finally sit with themselves and translate what’s been hiding inside.
Meet the Boy, the Girl, the Cloaked Figure and the Monster, read the prompts, and see where the practice behind the Self Work paintings goes next.
Fifty of each. Then never again.
Selected paintings, reproduced as museum-quality 2.5″ × 3.5″ art cards in a magnetic acrylic display case. Each design is a strictly numbered edition of 50 — once they're gone, they're gone. Sold through minicuration.
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A gallery with no walls of its own.
“Virtual galleries for contemporary art”
iExploreArt builds walkable virtual galleries for contemporary artists. Every visit starts in a reception foyer, where Mira the curator meets you and points you toward the halls.
Each resident artist gets a hall of their own and a share link to send anywhere. It is built for artists who want people to walk through their show, not scroll past it.
I liken myself to a world-builder.
NOVA 7 is a universe I’ve built for you to fly through. Take a ship out to other planets, land, and talk with the people who live there. Some of those worlds come from books I’ve written; others grew out of ideas that inspired me. The nebulae are named after my paintings, and there are many secrets hidden in the stars.
Explore NOVA 7 ↗Story of growth.
A brief walk from early chaos and curiosity, through Thought Entropy, into the first steps of Self Work.
This is where I realized I wasn’t just making art – I was trying to understand why anything exists at all, and why I felt so much about it.
“I’ve been called an artist, filmmaker, writer, philosopher, ‘a man of a thousand faces.’ To me, I’m just alive, constantly trying to make sense of the chaos and connection of being here, and turning what I find into paintings, words, and worlds others can walk into.”
JFeelgood has been painting in Austin since 2004: several hundred paintings so far, along with five published books, five music albums and video games. Painting is the center of it, the way he looks at the world and keeps talking back to it. The rest grew out of the same habit of self-work: try a new medium, live a little more, paint what comes back.
He has organized community events and held leadership roles in art organizations, mostly so that other people would go looking for their own creative gifts. Off the canvas he tends a garden and spends time with his family.
