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Loren Hall
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I am a natural process paint spiller from the US who uses fractal expressionism in my work, writes occasionally, pets cats, and who also trains generative models from images of my own artwork. Thank you for taking a look!
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First Figure Study - 1987 #Art #Drawing #PencilDrawing #LifeDrawing #FigureStudy #LiveModel
I was 16 years old at the time, and was attending a workshop held at the college I later attended. I remember sitting there at my drawing bench with my board & clips, sharpening my pencils and preparing to draw, when a young female walked by me in a bath robe, and proceeded to walk to the front of the room, take off the robe, and sit in a chair on a pedestal. "Okay, here we go..." I thought, and drew this. Definitely NOT my best, but my first, and I'm showing it to you with all of it's false proportions and omitted faces intact. Thank you for looking!
December 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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A Supported Voice - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
Lots of color and detail in this one! There's pink, orange, green, yellow, metallic gold, and the usual Earth tone underlayer. It reminds me of an anatomical illustration of a voice box, as it makes vibrating sounds! Thank you for visiting my studio today!
December 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Saxophonic Lightning - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
I'm a longtime lover of Jazz, although the saxophone is not one of my personal favorites - likely a side-effect of being a teenager in the 80's, but to me this exudes Jazzlike energy, and dynamic motion in orange, coral, and magenta tones, with the usual fractal field patterns. I hope you like it, and thank you for your interest in my work!
December 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Self Portrait in Backward Time - 1994 #Art #AbstractArt #Drawing #MixedMedia #SelfPortrait
This is a self portrait in pencil, charcoal, ink wash, marker, and pastel. It shows a figure in 3/4 view, facing away, yet turned to look at the viewer. The setting is reminiscent of ancient Greek design and ruins, with an olive branch and Greek drinking vessel superimposed over his long, black flowing robe. Thank you for looking!
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Feet Like Fins - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
Some of you may have noticed that I like to title works after song titles... I'm guilty! This is also the name of a song by Cocteau Twins, and it resembles a coppery foot-fin splashing through green water, with lines of dynamic resistance bursting forth like the wake behind a boat. I hope that you enjoy it, and would like to thank you for visiting my studio!
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Resolve - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
Not sure why I titled this one this way, it's just an overall feeling I get from it, of divine resignation, and completion. It also seems as though the struggle has been long, hard, and well-earned. That's just the feeling, but the hard evidence is strong... There are firm, dynamic lines curling inward, while a background of midnight blue and coppery feather clouds line the "horizon". It's all abstract, only suggested, but that's what it produces in my imagination. What does it produce in yours, I always love to know! Thank you for your detailed report of observations in my realms!
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Moss Rocket - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
Judging by the appearance of this, "Moss Rocket" was the most suitable name I could think of for it. It looks to be a log or other organic structure surrounded by swamp fog, with bristly growths carpeting the outer surface, while a combustion engine seems to reside within. One can imagine it slowly gliding in the air, moving silently and monumentally through the fog. Thank you for being here to witness this weirdness with me!
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Floodplain - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
Here's another "satellite image" seen from space, showing a large-scale operation that I utilize on a small scale in my paintings - sediment deposition. My work attempts to echo this process in order to repeat some of the same beautiful results found in nature. I hope I have succeeded for you, and thank you for your consideration in any case!
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Serengeti - 2002 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #NotAI
This is one of my first actual paintings that closely resembled a satellite image, and to me it looks like an oasis in the desert, or perhaps a hot spring? Aqua blue is fairly consistently used, along with metallic red, gold, turquoise, and earth-tones, in a swirling mass that looks to be affected by a combination of continental drift, geological forces, and erosion! Thank you for considering these ideas with me, over a painting!
November 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Curtain - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
This one looks very much like some sort of white, membranous curtain, with a bright light shining through from behind. This light looks to be subdued morning or evening sun, and there are hints of green plant life, etc. through the veil. Thank you for visiting my studio today!
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Under the Surface - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
There's a definite dividing line at the top of this, a curving, aquatic line that evokes waves on water, which separates the plainer gradient at the top, with its subtle, bronzey rainbow hues from the complex, colorful structures to be found beneath, in pink, gold, aqua, orange, and earth tones. Thank you for your interest in my work!
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Hydrodynamism - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
This to me looks like a study of an object's aerodynamic properties, but in water, resulting in hydrodynamic action, and arcs of smoke designed to show the curved paths of air are replaced by waves, and ripped water. The overall effect is one of powerful natural forces, and dynamic motion! Thank you for visiting my studio today, which sometimes winds up on the beach!
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Tranquil Eye - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
This is a relatively simple composition, in comparison to some I've posted, but possibly gains some effectiveness, in that simplicity - it tends to highlight to fact that this resembles a person's eye, sans the pupil and iris. And as usual, it also looks like a landscape viewed from an aerial perspective. Thank you for your interest in my work!
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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2 Figure Studies - 1993 #Art #Drawing #PencilDrawing #LifeDrawing #FigureStudy #LiveModel
These are two academic studio life drawings from 1993. This one is a figure resting face-down from behind, with a twisting torso and abdomen, and legs drawn in. One foot is visible from the underside. Thank you for looking! These are two academic studio life drawings from 1993. This one is a figure from behind, standing contrapasto, with shoulders and hips tilted inward to one side. There are many "exploratory" lines highlighting musculature, but also providing dynamic interest. Thank you for looking! Thank you for looking!
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Bird of Paradise - 1997 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #NotAI
This is an IRL painting from 1997, in rainbow color with silver accents. It does not directly resemble a flower of any kind in spite of the name, but rather carries a feeling of tropical flora. I hope you enjoy it!
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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The Memory Gong - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
Occasionally an artwork will be associated with a sound for me, and such is the case with this one - and the sound is one of a gong being struck. Maybe it's the metallic gold coloration, maybe it's the echoing, repeating "wave" patterns resembling bursts of sound, or the mildly centralized composition, but I suspect it's ALL of those things coming together to lend themselves to one single effect - one single sound. Thank you for listening with me!
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Morning Tide - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
This one almost looks like a huge, sleeping eye, slowly opening with the first light of dawn, but is also looks like morning on a beach, in rainbow hues. Thank you for visiting my studio today!
November 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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A Mixing of Spirits - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
I don't know about you, but I could use a drink. :( I really should have a juice, instead! This is a very delicate piece, "gentle" is a word that comes to mind, and "subtle", but not bland or lifeless - just subdued, with much hiding in shadows, or gentle color gradients in blue, green, and gold with Earth tones, in colorful patterns that remind me of soap bubbles, in rainbow swirls. What do you see? Your input only adds to the work!
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Life Pod - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
Sometimes my artwork resembles a scientific illustration of some type of organism or organ system presented in great anatomical detail, and this one is a good example of that, with its delicate, sinewy strands that seem to be arranged like nerves or veins - all produced by fractal field patterning in gesso, and then painted. This time the color scheme is green, aqua, red, and gold with a strong earth-tone base. What is it? It looks like a human shoulder joint, or perhaps nerve tissue! Thank you for visiting my studio, where everyone's perspective is valid!
October 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Hawk Flight - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
One might barely make out the profile of a hawk in this one, flying to the left, with its beak and eye visible in the bottom-left corner, and the wing taking up most of the rest of the image. It is mostly earth-toned, with metallic gold, blues, and greens. Thank you for visiting my studio today!
October 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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New Painting (10-25-25) 01 - #WIP #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #NotAI
I've been dealing with gesso issues for literally years now, while the top-of-the-line brands became too expensive to experiment with, at $125-$150 per gallon. Well now, in 2025, apparently they've come to their senses, and you can now get professional quality gesso - that doesn't seem to have changed in consistency or quality since the 90's - for about half of that. It's only slightly more expensive than it was, at about $60 per gallon, which is about $10 more than it was in the mid-to-late 90's. THIS IS ONLY DAY 2 OF DRYING, and a disaster can still happen, but so far there is ZERO evidence of cracking, and only one spot where the gesso is splitting. This splitting is normal, in that it's been happening for as long as I've been painting this way, and caused when a skin of dried gesso forms over a large mound of wet gesso, and then shrinks, causing it to split, and expose the wet gesso underneath. Sometimes this layer dries and also splits, resulting in tiered or "terraced" canyons which resemble fractal forms of yet another sort, in addition to the fractal field patterns already formed in the wet gesso. So this is an entirely new painting for 2025, started on my 22nd wedding anniversary, and hopefully bringing about a new era of creative productivity for me! Thank you for all of your support and interest in my work over the years, and your faith in my abilities!
October 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Tiger Balm - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
I'm not sure why I called this one Tiger Balm. Maybe it's the orange and purple colors? Maybe it's the "stripes"? I'm really not sure, but this one is delicately decorated with metallic orange and purple details! Thank you for visiting my studio today!
October 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Swallowed Anger - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
When you can't become angry, what do you do with your anger? Where do you put it, and how do you keep it from eating you alive? This composition is dire, dark, convoluted, and painful in black and fire tones. Things are not right, but they are changing - moving. Perhaps the process of changing will bring about a better situation, one in which we will look back on this time, and be glad to have emerged from it. Thank you for going through these processes with me, even though they are painful and difficult! We can get through anything, if we do it together.
October 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Snow Bank - 2025 #WIP #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
Again with the abstract landscapes... but this time it's from our own, usual perspective, unless you're a pilot! It shows a flat, rounded area at the bottom-right, which could be a frozen pond, or field of grass, with a boundary in the form of a snow bank, which surrounds it. On the left are bare winter trees, encased in a layer of frost! I was chilly this morning, for the first time this year, and suddenly I'm in full polar mode. Thank you for your visit to my studio in Siberia!
October 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The 7th Process - 2025 #WIP #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
This one's very similar to one posted recently titled "Waterborne", only this time the palette has changed from blues, greens and yellow to purples, violet, and orange. All the intricacy is still there though, and the fine details! Thank you for visiting my studio today!
October 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM