Lindsay Aromin
Lindsay Aromin
During my travels, I feel drawn to flowers for their vibrant colors, tones and fantastic textures. Going through my photos I realized I took more pictures of flowers than people. Only my museum shots outnumbered them. I have even stopped the car so I could go out and take pictures of some vivid colors that caught my eye along the roadside.
I wanted to tell a story about artists and how we worked and thought and planned before we picked up a brush. My paintings start with one of my photos and devolve into a small painting and then into an abstraction of that painting. They are happy paintings that come out of a difficult time in my life and also in our country's life. I believe that you have to look at the brighter side of things and art will take you there
My background in art is strange. I was told as a third-grader that I could not draw and I took music lessons and I never had an art class. After taking a drawing-one class in a local college at the ripe old age of 52 and then transferring to U Conn where I graduated with a BFA Summa Cum Laude at age 58 and then on to my MFA at Vermont College at 60 years. After school, I reached out to Norwich Arts Gallery and have been a member since then.
Tom – "the Suit" – Forst & Beyond 1969
Album Release: Back to the Blues
Monday, June 1
7:30pm
Prolific guitarist Tom ‘The Suit’ Forst and Beyond 1969 dropped their exciting video “Comin’ Back To The Blues” on March 1, a musical prequel to the group’s upcoming live in-studio, all-original album, Back To The Blues (Release Date: April 25, 2026).
“This video, like the album, is live -- we wanted to create a sound that was authentic and dynamic, which only a live presentation can deliver,” explains Forst. “We decided to record the title track of our upcoming album, Back To The Blues. This song is a good example of what can be heard on this rock/blues album -- an all-original, ten-song recording in the spirit of Johnny Winter and Joe Bonammassa, live/in-studio!”
Beyond 1969 was created to celebrate the best music of the iconic years of the hippie generation. The band has revisited and re-imagined the best songs of the era. Keeping true to the Woodstock years, Beyond 1969 also writes, records and performs original material.
The group’s next, highly-awaited album, titled Back To The Blues, was recorded at Connecticut’s #1 award-winning studio, Horizon Studios, under the watchful eye of owner/producer, Vic Stevens.
(See norwicharts.org or scan the QR code for more info about the band.)
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$15 Members