Artist's
Bio
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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