Hello! We are Lauren and Collin, and thank you for visiting our website, and supporting our art!
We are two musicians from the Southern Oklahoma/North Texas area who really love all kinds of games, movies, shows, and things. It's hard to give our art a clear category. Even more so, it's hard to speak for us both, so how about we tell you about ourselves!​
LAUREN:
"Hi! I'm from Antlers, Oklahoma, and I've been studying classical singing for around 7 years now. I'm currently doing my masters of Opera Voice at the Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana. Art has always been a hobby of mine, and during the pandemic when performing slowed down, I started to make more paintings and sell them to friends and family. This started The Dark Arts, and with the help of my mother Julie and my father Chris, we started to sell artwork at art shows and comic-cons around the US. I take a lot of inspiration from movies and tv for my paintings, and from nature for my sculptures."
Collin:
"Hi! I'm from Denton, Texas, and I've been a composer and pianist for most of my life (Collin Bauswell on Spotify). I've always wanted to draw and make art, though, and seeing Lauren make so many great things inspired me to join her, and now we do it together! I love character portraits and art with a sense of supernatural elements, but a lot of minimalism too, so you'll probably see a lot of that in pretty much all my stuff. I also write all the stories for the Shroomz! I wanted a sort of pseudo-sci-fi feel for the journal entries, so I take inspiration from things like Portal 2, Gravity Falls, Studio Ghibli, and The SCP Foundation.
