Lanny Brewster
Artist Lanny Brewster is a Georgia native with a professional background in floral design, commercial and residential Christmas decor, visual merchandising, and sculpture. For many years, Lanny has been creating three-dimensional works from found and discarded objects, arranging them in shadow boxes, reliquaries, and clock cases to encapsulate rich inner worlds telling intimate, evocative stories.
In 2008, Brewster discovered that painting afforded another opportunity to create stories. Frequently painting outdoors (plein aire) and concentrating on the local landscapes and skies, Mr. Brewster has found a passion for color and texture, while the small scale of his paintings reflects his connection to the intimate moments explored in his three-dimensional work. Painting intuitively, Lanny uses oils on both archival paper and canvas, and though his paintings are small they capture the “big-ness” of nature.
"The moment outdoors when the quality of light strikes me, or the layers of color create character in place, that’s what I paint. . That is the story I want to tell.”
His painting “Marshes of Glynn, Brunswick View” was purchased by the City of Brunswick in 2009 as a gift for Lin Zehua, Vice-Mayor of Ganzhou, Brunswick’s sister city in Jiangxi Province, China.
Brewster is currently the resident artist for Sapelo Island, Georgia. Sponsored by the National Estuarine Research Reserve, the residency is part of the reserve’s “Through Nature’s Lens” artists’ series. A multi-media event featuring his paintings of Sapelo Island will open in March 2011 at Art Downtown, Gallery 209, in Brunswick, Georgia.
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