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This is a contemporary, abstract, acrylic with mixed media on canvas. The artist used a regular sand additive to thicken the paint and add texture, his 1800's era beer bottle to create the circles and he glued a paint brush that he used to the canvas. He dipped newspaper in paint and let dry on the canvas to create the clouds. This 60x48x1 contemporary, abstract hangs proudly in the Student Services Building on the West Virginia University campus. Signed on front and back.

Born in the small Northern Panhandle town of Glen Dale, West Virginia, gH FiLben studied art and music at an early age and loved the self abstract expressionism that painting allowed. He studied art and music throughout his childhood and continued through adulthood. He graduated from John Marshall High School and West Virginia University and is a veteran of the U.S. Army. gH FiLben has an original 48x60x1 abstract and mixed media on canvas called "One Green Circle" hanging proudly in Allen Hall on the WVU campus. Now residing in St. Louis, Missouri, he considers himself a self taught artist who works in a wide variety of mediums. His explosive paintings and mixed media art are self representing and unconventional. His stylistic leanings...