jenfisher

This is painting is individual strokes of oil paint over a layer of navy acrylic paint on canvas. It’s little - 10” square I think. I painted it over a weekend while listening to General Conference (an LDS church broadcast). Doing something with my hands tends to help me concentrate. Sometimes. Sometimes nothing helps - religious speakers sometimes make me feel SO peaceful that napping is the only viable option. : )

I based it on a little section of a photograph I took at the Marin Headlands. Mom, Linds and I spent a weekend at a hostel there once. As far as my paintings go, it was a pretty important weekend - one of my largest canvases (3’ by 3’) is based on another photo from that weekend. It’s “Ocean Inlet".

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This is a small collage - 10” x 10” I think. I’ve been obsessed for a while now with cutting little strips from pages of magazines. Just any colors and textures that I love. I actually have them stored in big clear envelopes ready to go. If any envelope feels a little on the light side I feel pretty uneasy and I know it’s time for a magazine cutting session. VERY time consuming but pretty satisfying. Norie has kindly hooked me up with magazines as she finishes with them for quite a while now. (I think my stack of ready-to-be-harvested magazines is about three feet tall!) I use the little strips as I would brush strokes, so I feel like they’re almost more paintings than collages.

My obsession continues with the moment that hills rise up and sky drifts down and they gently crash together. I don’t see it ever easing up. Obsession. I’m not kidding. I just can’t see it enough. I even pull over the car if I’m driving from time to time (once even on the freeway which I don’t condone) just to take it in. I can’t get enough.

This collage was pretty important to my work because it’s the first time I put this idea of using strips of paper as “brush strokes” on canvas. Could I control gradations of color the way that I wanted to? Could crazy textures - while they made me infinitely happy - really hold their own separately AND come together as a field of color? I’d been playing with the idea in my head for weeks and this experiment made me pretty happy.

This is another painting based on a photograph I took in the Marin Headlands. It’s pretty big - 3’ by 3’, and is individual brush strokes of oil paint over a few transparent layers of acrylic paint.

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These are little mixed media drawings on paper, with watercolor, ink, collage, and sometimes a little oil pastel. They feel pretty meditative - never planned or sketched out. Things just wander out onto the paper. Kind of therapeutic. But, like all of my art, when I’m MOST in need of therapy of any kind, no art happens at all. Too bad. I’m pretty fond of a few of these. Maybe because they’re a surprise every time.

This drawing was done while I was hanging out in Kevin’s amazing apartment in Bahrain on his oh-so-cool iPad Whatever (8? 10? Touch? Something…. I obviously can’t remember, but whatever it was I kept saying, “Wow. I want one of these!”). Part of what I like about this drawing is that I was with Kevin and Linds and my first (and only) time in the Middle East.

This is another collage using strips of paper like brush strokes. It’s two canvases that are each 1’ x 2 1/2 ‘ I think. (I’ve got to remember to check one of these days). I’ve also got to photograph them again because there’s actually a grassy green hill at the bottom. My love of sky meeting ocean meeting land continues in full force. Seeing water transition from deep blues into multiple shades of turquoise makes me happy. Those colors hitting green hills and my color-love is complete.

This is a large one - 3’ square. It’s comprised of individual brush strokes of oil paint over turquoise acrylic paint on canvas. It was inspired by a piece of an ad torn from a Spiegel catalogue. Remember those catalogues? Nineties? Or even eighties??? I have no idea how I managed to hold onto it through the decades. Anyway. I was consumed by thoughts of transparency for ages. Good memory.

This is summer in California to me. Golden hills and impossibly blue skies. The intensity of the colors and the smell of baking grass. This is another large one - three panels that are each 1’ x 3’ feet, so basically, a three foot square. It’s another collage on canvas using strips of paper in place of brush strokes of paint. I was pretty obsessed with a few things while I worked on these. When you’re outside looking up, I love the way the blues of the sky deepen as your gaze goes higher and higher, so I worked hard to get that right. Just from an clinical perspective, I wanted the panels to be part of one single image, but I also wanted them to be unique. Instead of working on them simultaneously as I would naturally do, I worked on each one separately from start to finish. I made an effort to use different sources when I collected strips of color to collage with so that the colors really don’t “match.” Maybe like fraternal triplets instead of identical triplets?

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This is another painting that consists of individual brush strokes of oil paint over acrylic paint on canvas. It’s about 30” square.

Not exactly SOLD, but it’s hanging at my mom’s house and she’s pretty attached.

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