Englewood Artist Combines Art with Theological Training - Sarasota Herald-Tribune - 6/2/06
Brian Haverlock will be showing new paintings at Greene Contemporary from June 3 through June 30, 2006. An opening reception on Friday, June 2 will preview the exhibition from 6 to 9PM.
Brian Haverlock draws "inspiration from life experiences as well as sacred scripture, symbols and art history." He is "fascinated by the aesthetic qualities of antique photographs." He crafts his small works with meticulous attention to detail. His images are made with a lead graphite under drawing and oil paint glazes on heavy Bainbridge hot press board. The works are small in scale averaging 7 x 5 inches and he has made some works as small as 1 ¾ inches square and as large as 9 ¼ x 5 3/16 inches.
Haverlock who builds his own frames says "I consider the framing an important part of the work as a whole. I use cedar wood, staining it until I achieve a patina that works best with the artwork." He uses "vintage frames and found materials: such as metal, fabric and recycled wood."
Haverlock's focus on the detail of line recalls the work of artists from the late15th and early 16th century Renaissance in Northern Europe. He makes reference to them with figures and symbols in works with titles such as Hieronymus Bosch's Landloper Passes By... Haverlock's work reminds the viewer of artists such as Albrecht Dürer whose quality of drawn line dominates the viewer's sensibility. While not overtly religious in tone there is a mystical quality about Haverlock's work that stimulates the conscious and subconscious.
Haverlock began drawing in the 1970's living with his parents in a small town in North Dakota. There he was influenced by the vast open spaces, the big skies and the roaming buffalo. Since then he has lived in North Carolina, England, Philadelphia, Central America, Washington D. C., and now Florida.
His work has been exhibited and collected internationally. In 1999, his first breakthrough exhibition was at the Art of the Northeast USA: 50th Annual Juried Art Exhibition in Connecticut, juried by Allan Stone of Allan Stone Gallery in New York. Since then he has had opportunities to exhibit with Allan Stone Gallery and other galleries in New York. He is a recipient of the 2005 John Ringling Artist Grants awarded by the Sarasota County Arts Council.
In 1994, he graduated from East Carolina University in Greenville, NC with a BFA in painting. In May, 2004, he completed an MA in Theology at the Washington Theological Union in Washington, DC. Haverlock maintains a studio in Englewood, Florida.