Forest Rogers

My Artist Mother (post Mother's Day)

Lou Rogers, working at the Rudolph N. Rohn liturgical arts company in Pittsburgh, PA, in the early 1980's. And on the Mountain, over Boulder, CO, at 20 years old. She saw the Mountains both as entities in themselves and as populated with numinous beings, which manifested in her paintings and writings.

My Mother's White Whale

"White Whale" by Lou Rogers. My mother painted this when I was quite small; it's one of the images I remember best, growing up. Happily  it is still with me. I hang it again today.  My mother loved Moby Dick, and spent a good bit of time in high school limping, being Captain Ahab. All her life she pursued the numinous. The solitude in her work speaks not of loneliness but of relationship with the vast and transcendental.

The Odd things...

...that squeeze the heart:  I was sorting all manner of things today, and found a loose, bright orange 'post-it' note wandering the drifts of paper.  Upon it my departed mother had written, in capital letters:
GLOBULOUS GRAY BEING.

What the label was for, I know not. But that was the mark of my mother, and no mistake. We'll see if I come across the Being, as well.

Hobbits, by Lou Rogers

My Mother's take on Frodo and Samwise. Oil on canvas.

Again, for Easter, by Lou Rogers:

"He Is Not Here"

'He is not Here'

'He is not Here' by Lou Rogers.  Oil on canvas.

Thank you, kind and faithful Friends, for sticking with me through this time. I'm
hoping to have a memorial show of my mother's work in Boulder, Colorado,
September 14th 2007, at the Myriad Gallery. This must be finalized, but that's my aim.

Soon I should be posting more images of my own creatures, too.

My best to you all,
Forest

Bast

'Bast' by Lou

Reading Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen was one of Lou's favorite authors, and her painting above was
inspired by him.

Climber

Study of a Climber, by Lou

Thoth

"Thoth" by Lou P. Rogers

Not Far...

'Not Far' by Lou P. Rogers

Lou P. Rogers: 13 December 1930 ~ 17 June 2007

“The Ancient Cloak” 
  by Lou  P. Rogers,
  a.k.a. Villiers, Dyson and Vaughn
  a.k.a. Greenwood, Wingfield and Underhill
  a.k.a. Marl Jones
  a.k.a. Orion

'Strange Place' by Lou Rogers

Oil on canvas.

Faun, by Lou Rogers

Another piece by my mother, oil on canvas. She has sculpted and painted a large population of fauns and greenmen.