Raymond Lawler
Mr. Lawler, who by profession, is a transportation consultant whose work has taken him to more than 50 countries around the world. His professional occupation provides him with the vehicle for pursuing his two greatest passions, traveling the world and articulating these experiences through the visual mediums of painting, drawing and photography. His motto, “The World Is My Studio, Life is My Subject ,” effectively describes the content and messages of is colorful paintings. Mr. Lawler’s compositions focus on three thematic areas; exploring transcendental themes involving human existence and thought, capturing the visual reality of life as it is lived here and abroad, or representing the human or animal form in dynamic or emotive compositions.
The exhibition will be including many of his most thought provoking works, several of which have never been put on public display. The main attraction of the show will be his 14 foot mural “Where Have All The Flowers Gone”. The painting transcribes the Viet Nam era protest song of the same name into challenging visual images. Evocating the sensitivities of Picasso’s “Guernica”, it follows the fate of a bouquet of roses over 6 panels titled, “Hate”, “Propaganda”, “Combat”, “Aftermath”, “Graveyards”, and “Dear Daddy” and in the process asks some profound questions about the legitimacy and need for war. Other stimulating
works to be included in the show will be “Mucking Through” a memorial to the artist’s late daughter and “Solas” evocating the comfort of a pet dog; 3 figurative paintings, “Pedestal Without Foundation”, “Dissonance”,and “Nocturnal Fantasies”; paintings from afar including “Turbaned Beggar”, “Haitian Shoeshine Man”, and “And a Good Time Was Had By All”; brilliantly colored images from the deep including “From The Sea” and the humorous “Drop In and Have a Drink, and finally a rich collections of African animals done in several mediums and drawings of the Chester County horse country.
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