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BARRETT LEHRMAN

From the Shadows of Nevermore Point

"A dreamy, surreal quality pervades this melancholy painting. I realized, after completing it, that it is laden with symbolism, much of which I am at a loss to verbalize. Have you noticed the onlookers in the shadows of the portico?"

Phantoms

"Why am I so fascinated by old graveyards? Is it because they evoke the souls that lived before us, whose earthly remains quietly moulder beneath? And what of their spiritual beings? Do we feel their presence around us in these earthly surroundings?

It is the artist's privilege to imagine the unimaginable, to visualize the unseen, to give form to our hopes, our beliefs, and sometimes our fears."

Lewis Barrett Lehrman's spooky paintings...
From Lehrman's artist statement:

"How did I become interested in painting the haunted world? I trace it back to the summer of 1944, the year I turned eleven! That was when my aunt and uncle invited me to spend a month with them on a mid-western farm. I was a New York city kid, a budding artist even then, and to say I was excited at making the trip -- by myself!! -- on an overnight Pullman sleeper train to Battle Creek, Michigan, would be understating my feelings by quite a bit. Sleepless with excitement, I spent that night, nose pressed to the window, gazing out at moonlit farmlands, lonely houses lit by solitary lights, as we rolled past in the darkness. They're images I remember to this day, so it was only natural that I'd be drawn to painting the night."

Boing Boing: Lewis Barrett Lehrman's spooky paintings: "Lewis Barrett Lehrman's spooky paintings"

ALIX MALKA

Check out this photographer's amazing work!



To see more work: JGK | Alix Malka

JULY: REBORN SUMMERTIME FANTASY

I feel that our first Creative Forge and the Tiny Wasteland meeting was a great success! We talked shop, we talked experiences, we talked futures...

Honey, Karla, Mel, Matt - thank you for coming! The rest of you, I look forward to seeing you next month.

Here are the pieces that we saw this month. Please feel free to leave us comments on what you think about the pieces...
July's Theme = Reborn Summertime Fantasy


© Honey Malek



© Melanie Cherney



© Matt Lepore



© Jen Chau

Our next meeting will fall on August 7th.
Location: Jen's House
Time: 3pm
Theme: SCREAMO EMO

Again, the theme is a guideline for those who want it. It is NOT designed to limit your expression in anyway. So if you have something else you want to show, bring it. If you don't have anything done for August, done let that stop you from coming to get inspired by other creatives.

See you soon...