Serenity - Oil on Linen 48'' x 36'' D . Loren Champlin’s dramatic, expressionist paintings capture the emotional textures of landscapes with a passion equal to that with which he paints the human body. For Loren, bodies and landscapes are expressions of a shared universal essence, and he surrounds his subjects within stormy swirls and eddies that evoke a symphony of moods and aesthetic ideas. There is an iconic feel to his works, suggesting that these domestic scenes and landscapes carry in their dramatic brushwork the weight of greater significance. Loren has said that painting is an act of primal communication, and that an unspoken union between artist and subject is created, as they both transcend the moment to create a perfect merger through the artwork. His subjects at times seem about to dissolve into a lava of passion or an ecstatic explosion of particles, and therein lies the tension in Loren’s work: life’s progress seems to have halted in his paintings, but halted at a moment of great significance. His subjects are suspended in the artistic moment. The human condition is Loren’s muse, a vulnerability expressed in his bold brushwork and the emotional tumult it conveys. It is these emotional ties that bind the subject to the canvas and help create the symphony of meaning in his paintings.

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