Folk Art by Bebo
Bebo's pieces are available in many sizes and colors. Shipping is via USPS unless otherwise specified.
You can view a sampling of what we are stocking by Bebo in our online Bebo Gallery. The pieces in the gallery and the actual piece shipped may not be exactly the same, but a 12" red lizard, for example, will always be approximately 12" and will always look very similar in shape (various anomalies in the material notwithstanding) and will always have the same general color scheme. If you want a special piece, some color you don't see or size you aren't finding here, just email Jan and we can hook you up with many other styles, sizes, colors or combinations of the three.
127 Commerce Street
Apalachicola, Florida 32320
850 652 2030
About Bebo
Bebo (a.k.a. John Paul Daniel) is an untrained artist (he describes himself as an "outsider artist") who began making critters out of old barn wood in 1993. He had a stack of old wood from a shed demolition stacked in his yard and one morning he got up and started cutting out critters with a hatchet. The first pieces were very primitive.
The name Bebo came to him in a dream a few months after he started creating his folk art critters. He dreamt someone said to him "You are Bebo"...and he took the name as his folk art name.
Bebo uses old barn-wood- oak, poplar, maple, ash, whatever is available in the area around his home in Tennessee. Some pieces are small, others as large as 10 to 12 feet long. He paints mostly in primary colors using enamel tractor paint and the resulting pieces can be hung either indoors or out. Bebo makes use of the natural lines and imperfections of each piece of wood in shaping his critters so each piece, while following a general theme, is unique. Most of his critters are fish, reptiles, lizards and snakes, although some of them might have appeared in a similar dream to the one where he got his name.
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