Painting in Focus – Summer 2025 @SaatchiArt – Seasonally Off, Emotionally On

My write-up here for Summer 2025 has only a small overlap from my description on Saatchi Art, so I hope you’ll also visit my painting’s page there too and take a look —
https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Summer-2025/2369095/12526091/view .

Summer 2025 is partly an exploratory search for the figure forms that appeal to me. It’s also a very deep dive into what appeals to me as an artist and a person living in precarious times here on Earth – I know, when aren’t they, right?

There’s terrible seemingly unrelenting anger and hate and misinformation in every moment of our lives now. So how could I bring that into a work of art that offered opposing elements within a harmonious blend of beauty and enticement. A blend that made me want to reach out and touch it. An image that made me desirous to experience this state of resolution in my painting, and in my life. Summer 2025 offered me that.

It’s probably important to note too, my wife and I live in central Texas, in Austin, where the heat now begins in March and can stretch to October. So creating, realizing, discovering really, an image of relaxed ease, amongst a floral bounty, and include “Summer” as it’s title, was the perfect improbability of actually living in our heat again soon, and, a balm for the divisiveness we’re experiencing today, in these early days of 2025.

And much of this whole write-up about the dichotomies of Summer 2025, I discovered while writing this very post – a very similar creative path I experience while painting. That’s part of what the creative effort does for me – helps me make sense of things I feel but can’t yet explain, to myself or others. That’s a secret beauty of creativity I’m only really beginning to realize internally. 😊 ❤️

Thanks so much everyone!

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Below are two detail shots of Summer 2025 –

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Below is my most recent previous 24×36 painting, also available at Saatchi Art 🙏

Regarding Aquarius Is Rising, I don’t have a blog post for this painting yet, but hope to in the future 🙏😊

Adan

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I hope you’ll visit my Saatchi Art site and enjoy browsing my growing collection there. Some of my original photography is also available, though the bulk of my work on Saatchi is art originals. Plus prints of both my photos and paintings are available on different substrates (fine art paper, acrylic etc) in varying sizes.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 🙏 ❤️

Adan

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Online

Saatchi Art – https://www.saatchiart.com/FelipeAdanLerma
– originals & prints –

Fine Art America – https://felipeadan-lerma.pixels.com
– prints & gifts –

Pinterest – https://pin.it/18WFxAXTk – Adan’s art

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Physical spaces

SEABA ( South End Arts & Business Association ) – https://www.seaba.com – Vermont – (802) 859-9222

The Old Bakery & Emporium – https://www.austintexas.gov/department/old-bakery-and-emporium –
downtown Austin – (512) 974-1300

Primal Gallery – https://primalgallery.com –
west of Austin in the Hill Country – (512) 829-4647

Bee Caves Arts Foundation – https://beecavearts.foundation –
Bee Cave, Texas west of Austin – (512) 522-9467

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Social Media

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Twitter – https://twitter.com/FelipeAdanLerma

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Random images 😊

Blue Purple Abstract 2023