Saatchi Showdown - Please Vote on My Painting!

Here is my bid for shameless self-promotion! Please take just one minute and vote for my painting at Saatchi Gallery's Showdown. I will be forever grateful. (well, maybe not forever...)

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?showpic=99900

If you like my painting you can give it a 10. If you don't like it, you can give it the boot with a "1" rating! It's your judgement call!

I know you're all very busy, as Thanksgiving is almost upon us, so I doubly appreciate your support! Have an enjoyable holiday, everyone!

Light Makes All Things Real

Pine Bark, Echo Lake

Barkscape VIII

The Nature of Pine Bark

Illlumined



Light makes all things real.





Images and text c Lynda Lehmann. All rights reserved. You can view more of my work or purchase my photos at www.lyndalehmann.com

The Winds of Autumn...

chattering people

hear their own voices,

ignoring the wind.

-lynda lehmann

I was looking for serenity and found it in the waving, wind-blown branches of stately oaks and maples. I was carrying only my tiny point and shoot, as I so often do when I walk in my neighborhood. So the quality could be better. But the wind will speak to you, just the same.

If you listen closely you will hear a dog barking and birds singing. But mostly, you will hear the sound of the wind rushing through the boughs. Thanks for stopping by and sharing autumn with me!

Text, images, and video c 2007 Lynda Lehmann.

Introducing the Beautiful Abstraction of Révész Éva Gabriella

I've never met Révész Éva Gabriella in real life. She's a cyberfriend, whom I met on the Art Wanted site awhile back. Maybe a year and a half have gone by since Eva and I first exchanged notes, but I've come to cherish her warmth, enthusiasm, and above all, her humanity.

Eva speaks English so much better than I speak Hungarian, and she does a pretty good job of communicating in our language. It always pains me that I can't return the courtesy of understanding her language. Yet we have managed to communicate in a way that apparently has meaning for both of us. And of course, we share an interest in both digital art and painting.

I find Eva's art to be passionate, spiritual, and just plain exquisite. So I wanted to share it with you here. Some day I'm going to meet Eva in Europe, and we're going to have coffee or lunch and go museum-hopping together! But in the meantime, I will enjoy staying in touch with her and looking at her lovely art!

Eva's site is under construction, and I don't know when it will be finished. But I have her link in my sidebar, awaiting the date that it's ready for the world to see.

The top work is an acrylic painting which Eva calls "Sky High Tree." The next piece down, the floral, is called "Streak of Dawn." It's a digital piece. I love both these works for the warm and glowing light that permeates them, and for the tactile and sensuous surface quality. The third one down, the one with all those magical shades of yellows and greens, is another digital painting that Eva calls "April." It's fresh and has its own delicate magic, and a somewhat ambiguous but alluring space. And the final piece is an acrylic painting called "The Crater."


I think Eva's sense of drama and consequence come across in her work, as does a quality that I think of as being reverent or mystical. I hope you've enjoyed seeing a sampling of the work of my friend from Hungary, Révész Éva Gabriella. The way they structure their names is different in Eva's culture. But that doesn't matter--to me, she's just my dear friend Eva.

Fantastic Scenic Views Of Planet Earth

If you've watched the video on my last post, chances are you found it quite depressing.

As a happy counterpoint, this one will surely inspire you!

This is what we are at risk of losing...

British Columbia: Nigeria North?

I found this video while browsing and thought it was so powerful and important that I had to post it. If you love our Earth, please take four minutes to watch it. I think you'll be glad you did. It's about the disgrace of corporate disregard.

My Work in the Digital Arts Festival in Veszprem, Hungary

I have two pieces included in the digital arts festival in Veszprem, Hungary this month. My thanks to my dear friend Révész Éva Gabriella for inviting me to participate! I felt so honored to be asked to participate in this international exhibit of works done in the new medium. Wish I could have been there to see the Opening!

Here are links to the brochure and a listing of the show:
http://www.veszprem.hu/Portals/0/Program/darts%20megh%C3%ADv%C3%B34.pdf
http://web.mac.com/vricszb/iWeb/CFD00942-6E5A-4897-9BB4-C804C4C0F1B5/225891D8-4AB3-4066-959F-20E0D2B954D1.html

You can see "Fish Fiesta" and "Dark Night of the Soul," along with my other digital pieces, at http://www.lyndalehman.com/ or www.absolutearts.com/lyndalehmann. It's my guess you can easily tell which of these images is which! Though I'm sure I've posted these before, I wanted to show you which two I had submitted to the show. Images c 2007 Lynda Lehmann.

My thanks again to Eva and to Sztojalovszky Bela for being patient with my submission (which was late because I was away visiting family until a day or two before the deadline), and for printing and hanging my work in their fine show!

I will be introducing you to Eva's wonderful and passionate artwork in an upcoming post!

Opening to the Light

This is an orchid, but it reminds me of an iris in the way its petals unfold. At least I know what THIS flower is! (or so the sign at the arboretum said...)

Image c 2007 Lynda Lehmann, available at http://www.lyndalehmann.com/ and soon at Imagekind!

Thanks for visiting! I wish you a peaceful evening, and dreams of great beauty.

Backlinks With Bob and Alice! ~ Dummies Guide to Google Blogger Beta

Wonderful info for folks like me, who are both blog and HTML challenged!

Backlinks With Bob and Alice! ~ Dummies Guide to Google Blogger Beta

Art Critic Nicholas Forrest Has Chosen Me for His Top Ten at Saatchi Online

I put up this post a few days ago but almost as soon as I published it, the page to which I referred disappeared. So I'm revising the post to include a different link that I found in a Google search. It's http://artforprofits.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/nicks-top-ten-artists-from-the-saatchi-online-gallery/


Here you can see the text of the original article published at Saatchi Gallery Magazine, minus the photographs of art works by each artist's name. I feel very fortunate that art critic Nicholas Forrest has named me among his "Top Ten" artists to be watched, out of the more than 60,000 artists at Saatchi Gallery Online. I'm enjoying my five minutes in the sun...


Thanks for stopping by and sharing this with me!


Oh, I almost forgot to say that the image above is "Festival," and it was on the original article at Saatchi, next to my listing. Image c Lynda Lehmann 2006. "Festival" is available on my http://www.lyndalehmann.com/ site, as well as at Saatchi and Absolute Arts.

Florabunda

I sometimes forget that this is an art blog, not just a photo blog. So here is my newest painting. "Florabunda" is acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas, 24 x 36 inches, and it's--you guessed it--a floral!

I love working with color and swirling organic form. I've uploaded a detail shot to give you a better idea of what it looks like. Such large paintings tend to close in and lose detail, when reduced to the size of a web image!

"Florabunda" is available at www.lyndalehmann.com. Please feel free to ask about prints, if you are interested.

My Write-Up at the "Talent Speaks" Site

Gabriel Chapman of Talent Speaks and Talent Database has had his writer, AJ West, give me a short write-up. You can read it here: http://talentspeaks.com/index.php/2007/11/02/the-natural-talent-of-lynda-lehmann/

Gabriel runs the http://www.talentspeaks.com/ and http://www.talentdatabase.com/ sites. Check them out if you haven't already! I have a site on Talent Database, and it's a great way for people to find your work. If you do any of the visual arts, you can register for this dynamic new community for free!

Thanks, Gabriel and AJ, for the kind words!

The above image is "Entity," c 2007 Lynda Lehmann. To see more of my work, please visit www.lyndalehmann.com . Thanks for visiting my blog!