A collection of 25 oil paintings and sketches by Gregory Manchess are currently on exhibition in the University of Findlay’s Lea Gallery  The award-winning author/illustrator will be visiting the gallery for a reception this Thursday, March 15th from 6-9 pm. An oil painting demonstration will take place at 6:45, after which he will be available to sign books.
The work on display all relates to Manchess’s book, Above the Timberline, which will be available on the night at the discounted rate of $20.99 through the Mazza Museum. A special limited edition exhibition poster exclusive to the event will also be available for $10. All proceeds from the poster sales will go to the Mazza Museum.
The production of the 120 full-page illustrations included in the novel was no small task. In addition to the oil paintings, preliminary sketches and props are also featured, giving insight into the creative process.
As Dan Chudzinski, curator of the Mazza Museum says, “Come for the art, stay for the story.” Set in a futuristic ice age full of exploration and danger, the novel does include text. However, the gorgeous artwork speaks for itself: Chudzinski calls the exhibition “a master class in illustration.”
With 40 years of experience, Manchess has had work featured on multiple US stamps, on the covers of and inside magazines such as National Geographic and Time, just to name a few. Visit his website to learn more, and to see more of his stunning illustrations.
The exhibition will be on display at the Lea Gallery through March 21st.
The public is always welcome to visit the gallery during regular hours: Monday-Friday from 8am-8pm, and Sundays 1-4pm.

About the book:

A city, buried under the ice. An obsessed explorer, lost in the frozen waste. A son, searching for his father, alone . . . above the timberline.
Galen Singleton, the most renowned explorer of the Polaris Geographic Society, is lost in the Frozen Waste. His estranged son, Wes, is determined to find his father after receiving an encrypted note six months after Galen was last heard from, when his airship, Indomitable, was lost.
But there are others who care only about what Galen –or Wes, if he finds his father – has discovered, and they will take any action necessary to insure Galen and Wes don’t escape the Waste alive. Exquisitely illustrated and told in more than one hundred and twenty paintings, acclaimed artist Gregory Manchess has created an epic wide-screen adventure that will captivate readers in this future age of exploration set against an ice age that has lasted more than fifteen hundred years.
 
 

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