![]() “Being this close to so many beautiful places, and being so close to Longs Peak itself is incredibly inspiring,” Germanov said. Like Bombay Beach, Longmont seems to be attracting more and more artists inspired by the surrounding landscape.įor Germanov, the mountains are one of his largest sources of inspiration. It kind of spoke to a theme within my photography, which is that lost Americana - how some of these smaller towns are drying up and becoming nonexistent and the buildings are deteriorating, falling apart and being graffitied but how that deterioration can also be art.” ![]() “It was completely graffitied, and within the graffiti there were little poems and words that told a story. “A lot of the abandoned buildings in Bombay Beach were transformed into large works of art, and one of them was this shack,” Rumley said. “Graffiti Shack,” photograph by Jill Rumley. In recent years, artists have flocked to Bombay Beach to revisit the town’s abandoned structures and breathe new life into the beautiful, but desolate, landscape. ![]() What was once a bustling resort town on the largest inland body of water in California, Bombay Beach turned into a ghost town in the late 1980s after climate change destroyed the lake’s ecosystem. ![]() Rumley, a photographer and painter who became president of the Guild in 2022, has art on display at the spring show - “Graffiti Shack,” a photograph that Rumley shot in Bombay Beach, Calif. “We’re becoming a much more diverse group - diverse in art, diverse in age, and diverse in background,” Rumely said. Some of the newer mediums on display at this year’s art show include found-object assemblage and hand-woven tapestries. Seeing all of these new faces coming to our meetings and participating in our shows and all of the new energy and the new types of artwork - there’s a lot of different new technologies, mediums and subject matter than we’ve traditionally had in the past.” “The Old Shed” by Dirk Bliss took third place in the Longmont Artists’ Guild’s 2023 Spring Member Show. “A lot of new people means a lot of new ideas, and a lot of support. “It’s actually really exciting,” Rumley said. The best part, said Rumley, is the amount of diversity that has cropped up within the guild with these new members. When looking at the canvas, it is impossible to tell that Germanov’s painting career is only as old as a toddler. Germanov is one of the newer members of the Longmont Artists’ Guild, which has been in operation since 1957. Giving the painting an uncanny, dreamlike feel. The painting looks like it could have been plucked right out of the Hudson River School, except for one major detail: Massively tall, futuresque columns plunge out of the serene valley, His winning piece depicts a surreal, incredibly detailed landscape with sprawling mountains and a tiny European-esque village. “I honestly started by watching Bob Ross videos, and just wanted to see if I would be any good at painting,” said Germanov, of his humble beginnings.įast-forward to March 2023, where one of Germanov’s landscapes, titled “Load Bearing Columns,” was chosen as the first-place winner of the Longmont Artists’ Guild’s Spring Member Art Show and Sale. The Longmont Artists’ Guild Spring Show is up now at Longmont’s Great Frame Up through May 6. The 30 year old first began to dabble in painting around the same time as the COVID-19 lockdown, just as a side hobby to pass the time. Three years ago, Longmont-based artist Emmanuel Germanov didn’t know how to paint. ![]()
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