The Boris Karloff Art Gallery: Bi – Bz

 

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At three years old, Jason Brower was already fully ensconced in the classic world of horror, drawing monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman and impersonating his favorite horror heroes. Soon after, his early exposure to Creepy and Eerie magazines, Hammer Horror films and Universal Monsters made horror, and the artistic expression thereof, a lifetime obsession. Jason’s love of rock album art carried him into his teen years: Ken Kelly’s KISS covers, Roger Dean’s Yes art and Paul Whitehead’s work with Genesis transported him to another artistic dimension. In addition, artists such as John Waterhouse, Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, Aubrey Beardsley, John Tenniel, Boris Vallejo, Frank Frazetta, Bernie Wrightson, Basil Gogos and Greg Hildebrandt all fascinated and inspired him. Jason developed his ability to conjure beauty from the realms of darkness with pencil and paint. His work illustrates his knack for getting inside each character with an innate understanding of the tenderness and frailty of human (and inhuman) expression.

Jason collected Topps’ Wacky Packages stickers as a kid and, later in life, found it a dream to be working on them. Since 2012, he has produced original art for several Wacky Packages card series, as well as Wacky postcards sets, comic books and, most recently, Garbage Pail Kids and Star Wars. He is also a regular contributor to Upper Deck, Viceroy Card Company, Monsterwax Cards and Little Shoppe of Horrors magazine. Jason’s first book cover art, for a spiritual novel by Linda Trimarche-Siciliano entitled “Not Completely Human, Living on the Fringe of Humanity,” was published by Hay House/Balboa Press in 2014.

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About the artist: Lorraine Brinit Bush is originally from Johnstown, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh with an Associate Degree, and from La Roche College with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Art and Design. She has been working commercially doing book covers, decorator plate designs and private commissions. She taught painting and crafts at Alvernia College in Reading PA. In 1997, Lorraine tied for 6th place in the National Pennsylvfania Trout/Salmon Print Competition. She has always had an interest in horror and science fiction. Her father, who taught her as a child, suggested she enter the art competition at the 35th Famous Monsters of Filmland Convertion ins Crystal City, Virginia in 1993, where she won a first Place award. Lorraine said that this gave her the incentive to do more monster paintings. "It's been a lot of fun ever since." Contact Info: 570 N. Church Lane Rd. Reading PA 19606 [gallery link="file" columns="2" ids="273,271,272,270"]

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