The Church At Newberg #1
by Scott Gearheart
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20.000 x 30.000 x 1.250 inches
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Title
The Church At Newberg #1
Artist
Scott Gearheart
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
When I was a young boy my family would occasionally travel to the town of Newberg to visit friends. Newberg wasn’t a far drive from my childhood home, maybe thirty miles, but for a six-year old kid it was like a journey to Narnia -- an odyssey to a distant land far from my home, where deep friendships were born, time elapsed at a different pace, and days were filled with exploring, game playing, and adventure seeking.
At that time, Newberg was mostly a rural area. Houses had acreage not yards. Fences were constructed of rugged, rusty barbed wire not fancy, white wood slats. The area was a series of endless, rolling hills of green, unkept grass, not precisely divided neighborhoods of blacktop, sidewalks, and patches of meticulously trimmed lawns.
Next door to our friend’s house sat an old, white church. Rustic. Worn. Simple, yet impressive.
This church was small, even for someone as little as me back then. Yet somehow on its “campus” was a gymnasium-type building. I honestly cannot recall where this area was in location to the chapel. For all I know, maybe that area was the chapel. Heck, at six I didn’t even know what a chapel was. Regardless, somewhere next to our friend’s house, whether it was in the church or in a building adjoining the church, is where we’d end up after dinner. We’d fill an entire evening there playing basketball, dodgeball, hide-and-go-seek, and tag. And “lights-out” tag. It was a a full-sized fort for us to explore and enjoy. Invariably, one or more of us would exit that place with a black eye, a bump on our head, and/or a bloody lip. It was a great time!
(A friend of mine, Lisa, was the catalyst behind this creation. After a discussion I’d had with her about one of my pieces she commented that she’d like for me to eventually create a painting of an old-fashioned country church. So, about six months later I started on it. Two and a half months after that, I completed it.)
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October 9th, 2012
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