“Cosmic Swimmers” is one of LeHoop’s most popular paintings. “There were billions of stars, a trail of stars. “It was July, 11:30 at night, right after a giant snow storm,” recalls Cohen. The noise of nature, and of the surroundings of LeHoop and his wife, relate the cosmic event to viewers and listeners.
With the accompanying music, the astronomical painting is brought back to Earth. The night they spent camping in Glacier National Park, Montana, inspired the painting “Cosmic Swimmers.” A black background, beaten on by a drum brush, highlights the shining white moon and stars shooting through space. Stories of the Meditteranean Sea, Appalachian frogs, and a montage of storms over the past 16 years are all beaten onto the canvases. “You didn’t have to stop for food, because you could eat the blueberries.” “There were miles and miles of blueberries,” recalls LeHoop. The scene was one of the first LeHoop depicted with both paint and music. “Bluesberries” pays homage to the blueberry fields that line the Pacific Crest Trail in Washington state. With the release of his new CD and his appearance at Musikfest all week at the event’s Handwerkplatz fine arts and crafts area, LeHoop invites you to partake in his memories. In 2006, she published a popular novel in Israel about their initial meeting and subsequent five-month journey on the Appalachian Trail.
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A professional photographer, she chronicles new hikes and expeditions in photographs that are mounted aside LeHoop’s paintings. Cohen herself has documented their hiking experiences. Each is a memory of a trip, a time, and a place that she and LeHoop experienced together. It seems understandable that Cohen is attached to the paintings. “They are so beautiful, I did not let him sell them,” she says, smiling. Placed upon it is another stand, holding another painting.
She then points to across the hall, where another table sits in the living room. The iron frame stand props up one painting. “I had to buy that stand,” says Cohen, pointing to a table under the stairs. Cohen says hat when wall space ran out for her husband’s paintings, she began displaying them differently. LeHoop’s paintings line the walls of his home. The same drumsticks are dipped into green paint and applied to the canvas, creating the stem of the flower. Then he starts.Ī drum brush beats the dark grey background of “Fluff Shuffle” onto the canvas, while drumsticks rhythmically articulate the dandelion feathers. After he chooses the necessary tool, LeHoop dips it into the paint and chooses a rudiment, a basic musical pattern for drumming. Chopsticks, loofas, and hot rods (the drumstick, not the toy) also come in handy. LeHoop uses old drumsticks and drum brushes as paintbrushes. The process of drum painting is relatively simple, albeit unconventional. “I don’t have formal art training,” he says. His trips expanded to annual seven month journeys in 1993, after he met Cohen hiking solo from Georgia to Maine on the Appalachian Trail.Įight years ago, LeHoop decided to depict his experiences on canvas. LeHoop became a serious hiker and backpacker when he bought his St.
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He also provided percussive talents for the soundtrack of the Israeli movie “Zaya” in 1999. His dream materialized as he joined several bands in the 1970s and 1980s, most notably a stint as the replacement drummer in the band Pickens. After completing three years at Penn State toward a degree in biology, he left school, opting to “follow music dream” instead. LeHoop’s musical aspirations continued as he grew up. Banging them on the kitchen table, LeHoop discovered drumming. “He was 3 years old, playing with kitchen tools, knives, and pens” says Cohen, 47. The call echoes through the hollowness of the park and reverberates off the drum beats. “Wilderness,” a track on his new CD, “Rhythm on Canvas (Would You Like to Hear a Painting?),” features the call of the loon. The recorded music is then embellished with the sounds of nature. Because each stroke is beaten onto the canvas with a percussion instrument, the finished recording resembles an improvisational drum solo. Not only does he paint with his drumsticks, but he also records himself painting. Clair, Schuylkill County, resident uses drumsticks and drum brushes to paint his wilderness experience. LeHoop’s paint strokes are irregular but systematic as he reconnects with fond memories of the park. Georgie LeHoop’s painting, “Wilderness,” captures each shade of green, dark and haunting, touched with dashes of wild yellow. The evergreens of Isle Royale National Park, an island park in Michigan’s Lake Superior, are a rainbow of colors.
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