about

Solomon Shiv Landerman “Sol” is a Multi-Disaplinary Artist. He is an accomplished Ink Illustrator, and a Painter using Gouache, Acrylic, and Water colors.

also...

He writes Ghost Stories.
Which he illustrates.
Hundreds of ‘em.

He romances haunted folklore be it Irish, Greek, Old American tales... or he takes to the high seas of his own imagination, conjuring Mermaids, Nymphs, Faeries, Werewolves, and that most fantastical of other-worldly creatures- Black Cats.

The Ghosties and Muses are out there and they haunt his work generously.

He loves to study light and its influence on objects in a space and the stories it can tell. With this many ways to tell a story- he never knows where the narrative will take him.

With their scope of intrigue, mystery, romance, awe, chills, and thrills- the Ghostly Tale provides Sol a perfect balance between limitations and freedom. So he is always making and sharing them in many delightful ways for you to discover… The Art of Ghost Stories may be as a yarn in words or one in visual mediums or even one performed- be it voice-over on the Haunted Youtube channel or performed on his LIVE streams…

In our break-neck paced futuristic culture , Sol has found himself looking wistfully off into the horizon of old things. Haunted Things. Ancestral realms. Ghost Stories. They are us. The Ghosts of the past. There are so many and they have feelings of all kinds.

He began the Ghost in the Gaslight art project in the Odd summer of 2014 somewhere between The City of Tomorrow, New York City and The City of Angels, Los Angeles. It was originally a blog with fancy-filtered spooky photos and ghost stories that he wrote. He was coming off of a 10 year hiatus from drawing/ painting when it dawned on him that if he was going to write these original ghost stories- he could no longer say he was uninspired to draw or paint on a subject. With this epiphany, the glow of Ghost in the Gaslight began to grow week by week.

Since then this ghostly world of his has mutated across an ocean of sketchbook paper, mounted paintings, and sprawling commissions and into hundreds of haunting tales and accompanying illustrations {seriously- there is a piece of art with every story}. He has prints and original artwork hanging on walls all over the country and parts of the world...

If you would like to experience the ongoing adventures of Sol’s project well- Scrawl your name and email in his ledger to receive the ‘INBOX OF CURIOSITIES’ wherein he shall send you pockets of other worldly magics and tales created by inks or paints or both as well as the goings-on and generally scrumptious news- and a chance to win wondrous beautiful things…

Would ye like to know more? Enjoy an Artist Statement from me below…

Hallo Dear Friend! Welcome to My World— ‘A Respite from Cynicism’.

        “The search for beauty being the real secret of life.” 
—Oscar Wilde, The Picture Of Dorian Gray. 

A Statement

There is neither rhyme nor reason as to why we remember what we remember. There is a lyrical power that the classic ghost story holds over us. And notice that they are not all literally about ghouls, and monsters.

What is a Ghost if not a Memory? And so the ghost story has come to be expressly defined to me as that which haunts your psyche long after the telling is finished.

'Ghost In The Gaslight' is a search for all things fleetingly beautiful; the kinds of moments orphaned and forgotten at the hands of our 21st-Century-breakneck-speed-of-life. I simply offer your world back to you through the lens from another time and forgive me- sometimes a peculiar syntax. I cannot abide by the usual blogger’s ‘chatty, breezy snarkiness’ wherein at times they seem apart from a situation whilst commenting on it.

                    I freely admit to living for the unapologetic ‘flourish’, envisioning a world in which Dickens, Thoreau, Woolf, Poe or Irving kept a blog about enjoying the little things; yea, but with their passion intact rather than the usual disdain for old things that carries the day in the blogosphere.

I present to you, the fruits of my own 'search for beauty' in the form of Artwork and Writs, owing more to the Haunting and the Romantic. To share with you a little bit of beauty, as I see it- that is all I crave. 

Why Ghost Stories?

Because this year will seem slow whence compared with what we evolve to next year or even six months from now. We are moving at dizzying speeds in information,  technology, and convenience.

Because the question keeps barreling back at us- in the digital Age-what is there left to hold onto? Only our memories.

Because our memories are the sanctuary of our lives.