Paintings
Painting has always been one of my favorite art forms that I love doing. As I became more involved with my clay work, however, painting went by the wayside for a while. My dad, Karl Lehman, died in 2014. Not too long before he died, he suggested that I might like to try painting again. When I first started painting during high school, he supported me and my interest and made a ‘studio’ space for me in our basement.
It was a few months after he passed that I was still having trouble getting back to my work. I went into my studio and was playing with some magazine pictures, placing them on my table in a ‘collage’ formation. I became enthralled with the composition and could see it no other way than as a painting. This became the beginning of the newest painting period for me – Wary of the Cassowary. If looking at the composition of the letters that are rising through the background – if sorted out they spell GENISIS – so it began. Two more paintings followed with a similar collage formation of images, whether from magazine images or a combination that included my own photos, as well. From there – after traveling to France and taking photos in Monet’s garden – came another direction of paintings that became my Giverny series. Objects of My Passion seems to be my next series as I embark on a series of my favorite shoes – there could be many!
Prints of most of the paintings are available for purchase.
Wedding Shoes
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'Vog' en Vogue
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Giverny's Light
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Impressions of Giverny
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Giverny Deveau
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Gouache (opaque watercolor) vertical sheet of watercolor paper, deckle edge exposed, wide white mat, slightly textured and colored frame compliments painting.
Dimensions: 39" height x 20.25 wide
Giverny III
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Gouache (opaque watercolor) extra large full sheet of watercolor paper, deckle edge exposed, wide white mat, slightly textured and colored frame compliments painting
Dimensions: 37.5" height x 51.5" wide
Giverny in Spring
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Gouache (opaque watercolor); full sheet, deckle edge exposed, framed, matted, glass
Dimensions: 30" height 36"width
Giverny II
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Gouache (opaque watercolor) full sheet, deckle edge exposed, wide white mat, slightly textured and colored frame compliments painting
Dimensions: 33" height 39" wide
New Giverny
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Gouache (opaque watercolor);
Dimensions: 26" height 19" width
Wary of the Cassowary
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Gouache (opaque watercolor); matted, simple light wood frame, glass
Dimensions: 19" height 26" width
Is It Worth It
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gouache (opaque watercolor); black floater frame
Dimensions: 28" height 34" width
April in Paris 2015 - Climate Conference
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Gouache (opaque watercolor); black floater frame
Dimensions: 26" height 34" width