We’re pleased to welcome to following artists to Strangecreek Campout 2025

William Giese
As a nationally published artist, William’s artwork as been used as book covers, film promotions, album covers, calendars, and product branding.His clients include, Artista Records, Miramax Films, Grateful Dead merchandising and many others. His unique style is inspired by myths and stories from ancestral cultures worldwide and explores the spiritual interconnectedness of all life.

LunaFox
Ashley Banyas is a local White Mountains, New Hampshire resident. She works seasonally as a full time Independent Landscaper/Gardener spring through fall. She does art displays at Music Festivals and other local pop ups. During Winter she is the Lift Operator at West Tote on the South Side of the Loon. You may have seen her chalkboard art at the top of South Peak and around the mountain. To create such surreal artwork she is deeply inspired by sublime nature and wildlife as well as dream states she finds herself exploring. Her art is on hand painted hats, canvases of all sizes, wall murals, chalkboards, shelf mushrooms, chainsaw carvings and recently animal bones. It is not just nature that is Sublime…But rather how we see it through our imagination. 

Lucas Litchfield
At its core, I like to think that my art is about turning something plain and uninteresting into something unexpected and fun. The world needs more fun. My method is largely improvisational, reminiscent of jazz or a hip-hop freestyle. I rarely have a plan, and if I do, very rarely does it turn out the way I intend. I like to cover every piece of the page in tiny details, intoxicating the observer, and pulling them in (or sometimes pushing them away; it takes all types…) like a magnet. A lot of my art is inspired by things I saw on the road, wandering and hitch-hiking, often lost inside and out. Though the wildness of it can feel busy, designing my art feels like cleaning a house that only feels tidy when every square inch has been tended to, and to me there is a grace that glitters in the busyness. I’m influenced by so many other artists, by music and by books, movies, stories, joy and depression, and by the undying American folklore that is told by this land.

Colette Aimée
“The completeness of being human inspires me tremendously. My mission in my artwork is to reach those who are unplugged from themselves. To give an individual an image to match the voice inside…”. Colette is a popsurreal artist who travels all over the country sharing her feral stories through oil painting and creature creation with body painting, and costume design. She is also the Curator/Director for the past decade for the Strangecreek and Wormtown Galleries as well as many other NorthEastern Festivals. 

Erica Sedler
Erica is a full time visionary artist/muralist that is deeply obsessed with exploring the curiosities of the natural world, and using these elements and characteristics in nature as symbols in storytelling. The addictive part about making art to her is the unknown; the visions and concepts of stories that can spark in the imagination out of thin air, or smolder for a while like a puzzle that needs to slowly come together on its own time. The brainstorming process, the ideas that get you out of bed in the morning, and the feeling of sinking your teeth into your imagination….that’s where all the juice is. Infinite magic! She primarily uses oil paint in her personal work, and has also painted nearly 50 murals in ME/NH/MA.

Lisa Betournay
Based in Tampa Florida Lisa is a self-taught Vanitas surrealism artist working primarily in acrylics on canvas. Her paintings are whimsical, bold, colorful, visceral, playful, and macabre. Creating her own unique style of backgrounds, Lisa complements them with stories told through the skeletal characters she has imagined to life. Her influences and inspiration are her rich relationships and life experiences. In 2013 Lisa began showing her work in pop up multi-artist shows and music festivals. Falling in love with the exhibition format, she still focuses primarily on these styles of shows, keeping her career in art rooted in fun. Fascinated with mortality and the macabre since she was a kid, Betournay believes skeletons, skulls, and bones are symbolic of our origins of inanimate matter and remind us of our mortality.

Thomas Bell
Currently based in Tampa Florida, Thomas has been an active visual artist for the past 25 years creating a large body of work spanning multiple mediums including acrylic painting, encaustic, ceramic, found object assemblage and mixed media works. “As a self trained visual artist, process and discovery are very important aspects of realising works for me. I began my venture into the visual arts world in 1999 and quickly utilised the act of improvisation within the creation of my works. With my formal education in jazz improvisation and ethnomusicology, this only seemed natural to the creative process.” His works are in private collections across the United States, Europe and South America.

IRYS ROCK
IRYS ROCK is an intergalactic aerosol wizard from both the past & future, sent here from another galaxy to inoculate the Earth with style. The mission is simple – travel the globe painting psychedelic artwork and hypnotizing as many human minds as possible. The work of IRYS can be described as a hybrid of raw post-graffiti meets visionary surrealism, or as he calls it, ‘Aerosol Daydreams’. Steadily crushing all surfaces, mediums and disciplines, IRYS approaches his craft like a well-trained Jedi with a sharpened lightsaber. Don’t stare into his world for too long, or else he might capture your imagination forever.