For the new millennium he moved from a beach house on the Pacific Coast to a historic (c.1800s) Mississippi riverboat-house in Algiers, Louisiana, before finally settling in LaPlace, Louisiana where he continued painting with his wife Nancy Giordano Echegoyen until he passed on December 4, 2010.
He exclaimed:
“A painting! A drawing! What better way is there for an artist to say I have lived all the previous years to see what will be the end? I know the worldview and I know the souls. I know belief and disbelief. I fear I know how each day will end and my stomach tells me what I have to do. I have my face now and it may be tested, although I believe there’s not a bad thing in it at the end.”
He lived his life single-mindedly, passionately, without reservation, excuse or concern for money. Just like in a story. And he was real.
Drawing table, La Place, LouisianaSketchbook entrycurios, watercolorNew Orleans Mask Series. plate 16, watercolorNew Orleans Mask Series, watercolorNew Orleans Mask Series, plate 22, watercolorNew Orleans Mask Series, plate 21, watercolorUntitled, watercolorChristmas card, watercolor on card stockSketchbook entrySketchbook entrySketchbook entryThe final sketchbook entry for Bob Camblin