Agreed 100%. I'm also not a fan of photorealism, but I believe that other posters in this thread are underestimating the skill of the artist. Especially now that I realize that he is working in watercolor, which doesn't easily allow the kind of layering that you can do in acrylic or oil.
However, he's doing a lot of those in watercolors, and getting watercolors to do that convincingly is (in my experience, anyway) quite a feat.
With that said, I'm usually more partial to more expressive artists--I'm not fond of the "human Xerox machine" approach to art.
But when the artist does it with this level of technical skill...oh, man.