My paintings on wood panels began primitively in 2001 and the function is still the same today. I use these pictures as a device to do my thinking and suspend the monotony that is common in life.
Harry Underwood is a self taught painter living in Nashville Tennessee. He was born in Miami in 1969 and raised in the rural "Redlands" farming area near the city of Homestead, Florida. His father was a carpenter and his mother worked at a supermarket. He has one sister. With his family he attended the Church of God pentecostal church until 1982. As a teenager, he cleaned swimming pools at many of the motels in the area and bussed tables at the Capri Italian Restaurant in Florida City.
Uprooted by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, he lived in New Orleans and Austin, eventually settling in Nashville where he worked in the construction industry until 2005. His artwork has been shown by galleries in United States, France and England.