Location: United States
"To experiment and explore..that is the true joy in the creative process. I don't believe a painting formula that works commercially again and again is true Art. . My style is personal, Places I have been...people I have known..experiences my eyes have seen..and how I translate it though Creativity"
"When I work I use color to drawn the viewer into my world. Everyone perceives a painting differently,as their own eyes view it, and draw their own unique feelings and conclusions, just like every other person on the planet. My paintings entice the senses to explore beyond what their eyes tell them.
Born in Wisconsin, Jim has produced art his entire life. Truly, since early childhood, and will paint tomorrow. Jim first attended Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, and was initially enrolled in advertising Illustration, but quickly was swept into the free flowing river of painting fine art. . After several years at Layton, Jim was accepted into Minneapolis School of Art.
There he had a guest instructor in 1966 named Christo Javacheff, Later known as Christo, the renown Installation artist. Marin counties' Running Fence" in 1982, and Central Parks "Gates" in 2005 are examples of his work. For the semester project at Minneapolis, Christo had art students cram in a huge weather balloon and his biography describes it as:
42,390 Cubicfeet Package 1966 at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis School of Art. Length:18 meters (60 feet) Polyethylene: 720 square meters (8,000 square feet). Manila rope: 914 meters (3,000 feet) Duration: Three day He taught a "open" class called constructions and Installation art for the Semester project.
Very few of the art students really understood what this art icon was attempting. This is art, we would ask?We all thought he was even crazier than we were. He taught us too push the limits beyond what is known in the world of Art. The rest is Art history.
"My work is not merely to decorate a wall;
Rather to absorb the viewer in visual
Phenomenon, and view with a gaze of
Vernal openness, to look with new eyes."
Thoughts and images with a return flight from a New York show.
“Ring a ding at Bell Rock, Sedona”
The sunset colors of the Great American Southwest. The magic of Sedona Arizona,at Bell Rock Vortex
“under the Kiawi trees, Makena Beach”
azsure blue waters through the cool ,dark shade of the kaiwi trees at Makena Beach, Maui. a couple plays in the distance 48x24 O/C
Thoughts and contemplations from lounging under a coconut palm in Hawaii
“Deployment of the Cherry Tomato Probe”
My favorite genre of imagery....complete photorealistic fantasy and craziness..don't ask me why. but eat your veggies.
“Still life with Kiowa War club,and a twist of Lemon" 34x34 O/C”
I love the the color, the tight edge, and the symbolism of the chinese eggplant and Lemons.
27x27 oil on canvas first painting of suite showing a still life with alight bulb and three oranges
30 x 22 oil on canvas
34x15 x 2 oil on canvas with gold leaf
24x18 oil and gold leaf on panel
“Indo The Crater on sliding Sands Trail”
48x32x2 oil on canvas haleakala carter, Maui
“Full Palette of Light, Ghost Ranch”
14x36 oil on canvas
Some surrealistic fun with a bee, a pencil, and Point Sur Lighthouse in Big Sur, California
“ Golden Fields of Ano Nuevo”
“ Grave of the Palo Alto”
“ First light at Taos”
“The Rolling Spring Green of Aromas”
“Castles of Hovenweep”
“ top banana”
“Twilight magic at Ano Nuevo”
“ the sun Hat”
“Olmstead point, Yosemite”
“Two Santa Cruz Lighthouses ”
“ Moss Brae Falls”
“Walk on Bonny Doon Beach, California coast”
“They were always hidden”
“ Tahoes Beach”
“Good Old Bixbie, Big Sur.”
“My Dream”
“ Yosemite Rock Sketch”
“ Dreams of Tanaya”
“So then the Banana.............”
“ First view of Abiquui”
“ always a artist”
“Glacier Polish, High county, Yosemite”
“Snow Creek golf Range, Mammoth”
“Low Tide at Piegon Point lighthouse”
“Proposal at Elua Beach”
“Fly fishing the Feather”
“The Turkeys at Natural Bridges”
“Ke'e Beach Contemplations”
“Beach Chair, Puerto Vallarta”
“Napali Sail, Kauai”
“rise on Hot Creek”
“it was an almost clear day”
“just floating there”
“ lazy napa afternoon”
“out my window”
“Sedona 24x40 O/C”
“Pencil me in”
“Heads Up!”
“Farwell, Incandescent”
“a seed of Hope”
“Really call waitng”
“Like Apples and Oranges..”
“Two Bee or not 2B”
“Worldwide Art, LA”
“A New Day From old ones”
“Look out, Looking Up”
“Film, Still life with other old things”
