All of the artwork on this page has been created by Blake Lavergne who is our October Editor's Pick Artist

Please feel free to email Blake at: blakelavergne13@gmail.com

Blake Lavergne is a self-taught artist originally from Louisiana and currently residing in California. He creates mixed media for Dark Surrealism using any tool or supply that he can get his hands on. He painstakingly uses innovative and cross hatching techniques to transmute the idea in his head onto canvas through the alchemy that is hard work. 

Blake's subject matter is focusing on contemplation of the human condition and death while expressing the struggle of grasping the vastness of the outward universe. He tries to simultaneously cope with the inner universe that is our imagination and his art is overall used  as a overall catharsis for mental illness. He truly believes he would not be alive if it were not for his creations.

Blake is also a published writer with several of his poems being published in a collection of poems for Sarah Lawrence College in New York. 

He is publishing his first book of art and poetry entitled “Exorcism of a Poet” with Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander. In writing the foreword for his book, Ms. Fitch said, “Enjoyed these drawings, the graphic quality, the mood, and the sense of your hand.” 

Blake’s art was recently displayed in the Haven Gallery “Enchanted Forrest” exhibit in San Diego and in many other well-known galleries.