a blog about paintings, artist workshops, l painting tours to Ireland, Italy, artist retreats in New Hampshire, and pick your own organic blueberries at Grounding Stone Farm...Contoocook, NH
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Elemental Landscapes
September 21 - October 28, 2016
Opening Wednesday September 21, 5-7pm
Second Floor
19 Chestnut Street
New Britain, CT
Monday, September 12, 2016
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
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:
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"
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
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!
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:
Friday, June 10, 2016
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Monday, February 29, 2016
New work: nature a point of departure
kathleen jacobs
new work: nature a point of departure
March 3 - 27Opening 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.