“The Lost Frontier offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic process from the various materials and tools employed by the artist to his willingness to take risks when making and revising a work of art over along period of time. Llyn Foulkes explains with great precision and conviction both his esthetic objectives including his desire to depict deep space and to make things, whether they are painted or real, look believable. The artist discusses his social concerns, particularly about the environment, as it relates to his work." -Cecile Whiting, Art History Professor, University of California. at Irvine, Author, Pop LA: Art and the City in the 1960s

Llyn Foulkes's The Lost Frontier is a twenty minute documentary about the making of an epic painting. The famed Los Angeles Painter from the 1960’s is a contemporary of Robert Irwin, Ed Moses and Ed Ruscha, and an important force in California Pop and Assemblage. Filmmakers Tamar Halpern and Chris Quilty were allowed access inside the artist's studio as Foulkes struggled to finish a painting eight years in the making. Discussing light. shadows. and depth perception, Llyn shares glimpses of his past by demonstrating his experience and obsession as a painter. An artist’s work is not relegated solely to creating, evident as Foulkes sweeps the floor and recycles materials with care. This intimate portrait of an artist in his prime, his frankness about his career and his commitment toward ‘picture making’ makes for a highly personal adventure inside the mind and studio of Llyn Foulkes.

A documentary by Tamar Halpern and Chris Quilty.