Artist Bio
I'm James Honeycutt, an oil painter living and working in San Diego, California.
I came to painting late... in 2023, at 57, standing in front of Georgia O'Keeffe's work at the San Diego Museum of Art. The recognition that washed over me wasn't that I wanted to paint... it was that I already was an artist, and always had been. I left the museum and started the next day.
For two years I tried everything: acrylic, mixed media, collage, even digital. Over 200 works. Then in 2025, I found my medium in oil and cold wax on panel, and in 2026 I finished my first full collection, Coastal Textures: Big Sur and Beyond. Twelve paintings of the California coast.
The coast is still home base. But cities pull at me too, especially at night (small pools of streetlight, and the way they fall off into the dark). That's where the work is heading next.