Thursday, December 31, 2015
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Deconstructed Landscapes
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Friday, December 25, 2015
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
my love is building a building - e.e. cummings
around you,a frail slippery
house,a strong fragile house
(beginning at the singular beginning
of your smile)a skilful uncouth
prison, a precise clumsy
prison(building thatandthis into Thus,
Around the reckless magic of your mouth)
my love is building a magic, a discrete
tower of magic and(as i guess)
when Farmer Death(whom fairies hate)shall
crumble the mouth-flower fleet
He’ll not my tower,
laborious, casual
where the surrounded smile
hangs
breathless
photo taken from the whitney, NYC towards the river
late december 2015
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Monday, December 21, 2015
Nature's predictable rhythmic patterns are changing rapidly
Distilled Reconstructed Landscapes
It’s fair to say that my paintings contain layered meaning. Minimally, my paintings are a reaction to the Western culture of my time—my rejection of our society’s penchant for excess and indifference that threatens our planet’s ecosystems. I do not paint pictures of polluted rivers or littered fields. My work represents my own attempts in these chaotic times to reconnect and decipher the natural world, and to come to grips with the exigencies of today’s stark environmental situation. Violence and destruction also exist in nature, yet when I paint, I choose to ignore these traits. In nature’s predictable rhythmic patterns, I see the sublime. To me, nature represents the ultimate example of gracious acceptance of change, even death; winter’s repose inevitably yields to spring’s rebirth. For these reasons, my paintings at least, are simplified, idealized attempts that speak to nature’s persistence, vulnerability and beauty, which I paint if for no other reason than this: within the natural world exists the promise of rejuvenation..
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Come take a week long Landscape Painting Workshop in Taos, New Mexico this April 2016
SPRING
April 16 - 22
Plein Air Landscape Painting Week Long Retreat Workshop
"Sense of Place" Taos, New Mexico
Mabel Dodge Luhan House
Details at Cullowee Mountain Arts Website:
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Teaching Schedule 2016
2016 TEACHING SCHEDULE
SPRING
April 16 - 22
Plein Air Landscape Painting Week Long Retreat Workshop
"Sense of Place" Taos, New Mexico
Mabel Dodge Luhan House
Details at Cullowee Mountain Arts Website:
April 30 - May 1st - two day workshop
Small Format Plein AirLandscape Painting Workshop
Wayne Art Center
Wayne, PA - (Near Philadelphia)
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:
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Nor'Easter: Juried Exhibition New Britain Museum of American Art
This painting was selected for
The Nor'Easter
46th Annual Juried Exhibition
New Britain Museum
of American Art
January 9th - February 14, 2016
56 Lexington Street
New Britain, CT
Opening Reception:
January 10th
Towards Great Island,
Wellfleet, MA
38" x 38" oil/linen
Kathleen Jacobs
Monday, November 30, 2015
Friday, November 20, 2015
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Monday, October 26, 2015
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Landscape Studies will be at Black Birch Vineyard-November 15 - December 15, 22015
"Landscape Studies"
Kathleen Jacobs
Elizabeth Lehman
David Marshall
David Hardy
November 15 - January 4, 2016
Black Birch Vineyard
155 Glendale Road
Southampton, MA
413.527.0164
October 16, 2015
towards the meadow again
10" x 10" oil birch panel
kjacobs
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
that beach rooted tableau: aka "kisses deep"
nonsensical pleasure garden
no beach illustration
just kisses deep
later summer one - more - time
with sound be in stitches
on the double - soft hands
a beach rooted tableau and kisses deep
inner hallway, winter courtyard
head warmth on my sun lap
foolish four wall content
and more kisses deep
sculptures propagate in that meadow
slow approach steel red monster
minds eye close arm longer day
and many kisses deep
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Forever Truth
chilling distance and a visceral memory of warmer summer(s)
as many other seasons that had gone cold in the dimness of low light coming
or is it the clearness now of the telling signals that make it cold all at once
and so very fuzzy - his sleepless night and his telling pantomime
re-assured by the forever truth moments
its that false "truth in nature" or rather, those false "perceptual moments"
those forever sentence-less minutes that seemed real - seemed nice
those (fucking) forever eyes and of course those truth-full limitations
chilling distance and a visceral memory of this colder summer
with the dimness of low light going and the seasons coming in with the cold
