I work for a company that was recently acquired by IBM. We’re now HashiCorp, an IBM Company. Anyway, they had an offsite event to welcome us; flew most of us to Austin for a week.

I found some interesting (to me) art while I was there, so I’m going to share the pieces I purchased and some of the things I’ve bought online since then (they were the larger pieces that would not have fit in my luggage).

Tim Doyle

kiki flies on a broom overlooking a cityscape. Birds fly with her.

The first piece that captured my attention was “It’s a Clock Tower” by Tim Doyle.

Not only is it Kiki (Kiki’s Delivery Service) but it has birds in it, and my desk wall is very bird-themed. Plus the “rust blue” color pallete is what I’m really digging right now, so it was perfect. I ended up only getting the 8x10 (luggage space) but knowing that there’s an 18x24 out there…well, that’s probably in my future. We’ll see.

Chet Phillips

Godzilla on a matchbox

Another artist that caught my eye was Chet Phillips. Really, any artist that does a good Kaiju piece is going to enthusiastically have my interest. I ended up only bringing home the Soul of the Machine postcard set, but have since ordered the Atomic Firecrackers print and the Mechagodzilla Postage Stamp print, and more…and I’m excited for those to arrive.

Tony Hollums

a line or abstract art version of a cornet

The third artist that amazed me is actually out of New Orleans. Tony Hollums is a very different kind of art and that’s what I like so much about it. I came home with a Cornet print, and it’s already got a space in our living room on the “Wall of Happy”. There are so many other pieces created by this artist that just wow me, I can see myself starting a serious collection of these. One of the aspects that is incredibly interesting to me is how the artist extends the piece to the frame as well, which gives it that extra something special. Love, love, love it!