Garden Bench

A personal painting that represents paradise to me. A perfect day on the planet. Far from the hub bub of usual activities. A haven. The dog, a Shih Tzu, was Zoey in a favorite place. However she is not with us anymore.  Use this link to buy cards and prints of this painting.

Oil on Canvas, aprox 18 x20″ Copyright 2025

 

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Barn with a Boy, and a Duck-2024

The neighboring property has a beautiful barn, and I often see this boy running to feed the poultry. He’s always running. Everyday the barn looks different, and I have taken scores of images. I never tire of it.

Oil on a board, aprox 11 x 14″ Copyright 2022

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Red Calla Lilly

A red Calla Lilly in the center of the image of leaves and greens

For many years there was a wholesale plant farm called Hamilton Farms in Denville, NJ. This was from an image I photographed onsite whilst walking through the greenhouses. Now the farm has gone, sold out to a Canadian owned pot farm. You can smell the drying processing reefer as you drive by.

Calla Lilly Oil on canvas paper, aprox 14×20″ , copyright 2021

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Warped Dreams

Warped ladder reaching into a tree with a brewing storm in the distance.

Sometimes you daydream and see something you can’t unsee. This curved ladder into a beautiful Oak Tree has been haunting me for years. I finally painted it. It is therapeutic, and I beg you to interpret it to your own liking. Bend it to your internalized feelings. Oil on board, aprox 20×24″ , copyright 2021

Fallen or Plucked, same difference

Los Lunas , New Mexico

Los Lunas , New Mexico

Live your lives like a fruit. And know that whether you fall or are plucked early you are all the same. The dust of your cells will be food for the new branches.

ONE OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE

troll

GRAPHITE ON PAPER  APROX 17 X 20″

This is my troll, Drew. His best friend is Suzi Cyclops.  They’re writing a story together and just finished vol I.

Drew is a Russ Troll – or is he?

 

you make me feel special

Is this love or is it an illusion

Digital Photograph -© Lauren Bellon – all rights reserved

Our paths, about to collide in a most delicious way. I taste you in anticipation

Rat Rod

the new grunge cars

un-retouched digital images       © Lauren Bellon – All Rights Reserved

Somewhere between steampunk and grunge is a new phenomena in the classic car culture called “rat rods” . I found these dull, time worn, road-beasts of the past to be surprisingly beautiful and extremely photogenic. These are my favorites.


Shaded Headlights -touch of chrome

Beasts of Burden

A startling in the firm grip of a man's hand

The ongoing struggle between nature and man

Graphite on Paper – aprox 14 x 16   © Lauren Bellon – All Rights Reserved

Both man and bird suffer from their interactions. The European Starling was brought over to American soil  “in 1890, a drug manufacturer, who wanted every bird found in Shakespeare to live in America released 60 starlings in Central Park. After spending a few years nesting modestly under the eaves of the American Museum of Natural History, they went from a poetic fancy to a menacing majority; there are now upward of 200 million birds across North America, where they thrive at the expense of other cavity nesters like bluebirds and woodpeckers, eat an abundance of grain — as well as harmful insects — and occasionally bring down airplanes”¹

¹New York Times