Saturday, September 17, 2016

Elemental Landscapes

September 21 - October 28, 2016
Opening Wednesday September 21, 5-7pm 

Stockman Gallery
Second Floor
19 Chestnut Street
New Britain, CT  

Sunday, July 17, 2016

SUMMER TEACHING SCHEDULE

AUGUST 14-19
Week long workshop in Gloucester, MA
Plein Air Landscape Painting
all details about the studio and workshop
at the Cullowee Mountain Art Website:

FALL
September 23 - 25
Three Day Weekend Painting Plein Air Workshop
Concord Art
37 Lexington Road
Concord, MA
www.concordart.org

October 7--9
Three Day Workshop
Small Format Outdoor Landscape Painting II
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
Truro, Cape Cod, MA
details at:


www.kathleendjacobs.com

Friday, July 1, 2016


This painting is included in a show in Concord, MA in the Main Gallery at the Concord Art Center...

"Responding to Place"
June 16 - August 13, 2016
go to:

www.concordart.org

Saturday, June 18, 2016

"Mt. Tom" on view at Concord Art, "Responding to Place"


Mt. Tom, 5 3/4" x 9" - o/panel
This painting is on view at Concord Art,
"Responding to Place" at Concord, MA now until Aug 13th

Artists: Wolf Kahn,  James Urbanski,  Lois Dodd, Elizabeth O'Reilly, Stuart Shils, Sara Noa Mark
John Walker, Andy Karnes, Rick Fox, Kathleen Jacobs, Allen Witting, Susanna Howland, Kib Bramhall, Kaen Vincent.

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

"Responding to Place" at Concord Art June 16 - August 13 - Opening this Thursday 6-8pm

This painting will be on display in a show called Responding to Place
this coming June 16th through August 13, 2016.

I am showing with Lois Dodd, Wolf Kahn, Rick Fox, Stuart Shils, Kib Bramhall, Bernard Chaet, Allen Whiting, John Walker, Andy Kearns, Susanah Howland, and others...
please stop in to see the work...it will be a selection of landscapes that share the idea of reponding to place --- we al work from life and respond to what we see...

Where:  Concord Art, 37 Lexington Road, Concord, MA

go to...  Concordart.org to learn more...


this painting is entititled: Incoming Rain, Herring River, 48" x 48", oil/linen, painted in response to my favorite place, Wellfleet, MA

Monday, June 13, 2016

Come take a Painting class this summer!

SUMMER TEACHING SCHEDULE

June 27 - July 3rd
M-F 9-noon
Small Format Plein Air Landscape Painting I
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
Truro Cape Cod, MA


AUGUST 22 - 26
Week long workshop in Gloucester, MA
Plein Air Landscape Painting
all details about the studio and workshop
at the Cullowee Mountain Art Website:

FALL

October 7--9
Three Day Workshop
Small Format Outdoor Landscape Painting II
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
Truro, Cape Cod, MA
details at:


www.kathleendjacobs.com

Monday, February 29, 2016

New work: nature a point of departure




kathleen jacobs

new work: nature a point of departure

March 3 - 27
Opening reception March 11, 5-8pm
Arts Night Out

Oxbow Gallery273 Pleasant StreetNorthampton, MA  

The Gallery hours are Thursday - Sunday from 12-5 pm, and from 5-8 on Arts Night Out.  

Monday, February 15, 2016

Nature as a Point of Departure

Our altered environment due to climate change is a reality we all must confront. My paintings relate to my culture antithetically, for example, they portray serenity rather than anxiety. My artistic response to these times is to connect with the outside natural world by painting the landscape as a way to grapple with dire realities of today and reflect my belief in nature’s abiding beauty, grace and order. I embrace the knowledge that nothing in nature—or in life—remains fixed. What I see when I look to the landscape is order within the randomness. I use nature as a point of departure for my work—as a means for conveying my own idea of order—I begin by painting the landscape from life, looking to nature as my ultimate source of authenticity.  In formal matters of painting, Italian artist Georgio Morandi would come to influence me largely because of his emphasis on close tonal colors and compositional structure within his work. Morandi’s Landscapes are almost void of anything “natural,” and rather manifests the rational and intellectual process he went through in order to decipher his subject, which is the structure of the natural landscape. I see a combination of randomness and pattern in the landscape, and within my paintings, I seek to portray both. My intent is to carefully divide space, and to often establish simple shapes of flattened mass. Deep space is not always my concern, but space within the flat picture plane is, with the positive shapes filled in with closely related tones of color to portray serenity and structure. I often combine abstracted form with the natural pattern, sequence and order that I see. I am deeply engaged by the specifics of what I chose to paint, but not driven by the desire to replicate the appearances of actuality. I strive to always to reveal the orderly, logical formal relationships that can be extracted from the randomness of mere appearance—an aspiration that links me to Cézanne and Chardin as much as the Cubists.           Because of the respect and concern I feel for the natural environment, I want my paintings to give proper bearing to their subject matter, nature. This is fitting, as nature is eternally relevant to all human beings now and to future generations.