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Grim Prim

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About Me


Feel free to visit our ebay group - HA31!

I grew up with this creepy mansion as a playground. It is actually The Mountain Springs Hotel and a part of my old home town's historical properties. Over the years, it was used as a hospital, a hotel for health seekers and as a camp for a group of "spiritualists" who conducted séances and other strange acts there. Locals call it simply "The Spooks".

Is it any wonder that I became an eccentric artist? I think not.

Grim Prim Studio is home to grinning black cats, dancing witches, strange creatures on mysterious errands, all of them part of the eerie and unique Halloween folk art by me, contemporary folk artist D. A. Sweigart!

A Halloween atmosphere pervades my work, with a whimsical touch and vibrant color. Yet there is a sense of something perhaps a bit disturbing... underneath the colors and the smiles... something truly spooky, something WICKED.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Other Halloween Enthusiasts and Folk Art Collectors!
Come visit me at GrimPrim.com !

My Blog

New Grim Prim Halloween line!

Finally! It's been almost a year since I was approached by the Kurt S. Adler company to license my designs for their new Halloween line. Everything had to be hush hush until the samples came back from...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:27:00 GMT

Stress Kills!

Why is it that the more I need to achieve something, the less likely it is that I will accomplish this feat in a timely manner? I'm talking about that dreaded venue, artist's block. There are tim...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:54:00 GMT

Minor Pet Peeves

MySpace users who have music on their pages so it takes forever to load the page. I don't have time! MySpace users who send me a friend request but have their profile set to private so I can't see any...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:15:00 GMT

New Work....and is it Spring yet?

This dapper vintage style punkinhead guy sold on ebay a couple weeks back, but I plan to paint some new designs featuring similar veggie-people...there’s just something about vegetables in Victo...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:43:00 GMT

What the ? SNOW!!

Just when I thought Spring was making an appearance - Argh! Today it was fairly nice, sunny and warm. At around 5-ish, my son took out the trash and returned to tell me he thought he saw some of the t...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:53:00 GMT

Halloweenie Art Pendants

I just started making these nifty little art pendants (though they could also be pins) out of handmade wood dominoes. The wood is pine or alder - very lightweight so they're not heavy at all. I sand t...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:06:00 GMT

Night Mares Art Bowl

Just listed something new on ebay...a Halloween Folk Art piece titled Night Mares. I had such fun painting this (must be all the ranchers and their horses around my area that inspired this piece!). S...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:44:00 GMT

ESP

Note to Family Members: It is virtually impossible to sneak up on or surprise a psychic mother. Consider yourselves warned....or at least advised.
Posted by on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:06:00 GMT

Baby it’s cold outside...

In case you're wondering, I DO TOO still like it here in the Sandia mountains outside of Albuquerque but I do NOT like this little house we are leasing for the winter! There are no storm windows on an...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:54:00 GMT

Happy Halloween - Site is Open!

Our new site featuring lots of Halloween art and artists, plus a blog, Halloween craft projects, news and more is NOW OFFICIALLY OPEN! Please come visit us at HalloweenArtists.com - we'll continue to ...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:33:00 GMT