the art+music of butch mccarthy

Over the decades, his work has grown focused and bold, without any sense of preciousness or pretentiousness. It’s clean, simple and devoid of nonsense and optical clutter
-Don Wilkinson, The Fall River Herald
Butch has been painting in fits and starts since he was a child. He now paints full time in his home studio.
He works with acrylic paints on canvas and wood board.
Butch has been a part of the musical fabric of Massachusetts since the 1970s.
He has performed with many different iterations of his backing band, as a duo (with various musicians), and by himself acoustically.
