Paintings. What?! This is the work {oil on canvas} of San Francisco based artist Terry Thompson. I am a sucker for old signs, and these beauties are no exception! Here’s why he does what he does:

“For more than a decade, I have focused primarily on paintings of old neon signs that have somehow avoided the wrecking ball—signs that have lived. I see these signs as historically and emotionally charged metaphors for unrelenting time. In these paintings I strive to reveal the hidden beauty of these banal, rusty relics, by rendering them in oil paint.”

Revealing the hidden beauty… check!