Artwork by Jonathan Treadway

Bio: Jonathan Treadway is a self taught Kentucky folk artist. He was born a preachers kid in 1976. Guided by the spirits he went on to fail at the family biz. Now, he spreads a new message from His church of paint where oblivion shouts, can I get a witness? He lives and paints in an attic apt. in a house built in the 1840s that both sides of the civil war walked in front of in Bowling Green, KY, 65 miles north of Nashville. He is also a poet and former Rock n roll singer. He paints omens, spirits, visions, dreams and secular saints of lost America. In his mind, the paintings are a call and response hymn with his phantoms and shadows. The paintings are of the dirty and fraid holy, the blessed and damned from times echo.