Featured artist
Jacqueline Bellows
USA
Specialty Categories
Painting/Drawing - Landscape
Les Baricades Mysterieuses, Spirit Mountain from the Copper River, oil, 22"x28"
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Gold in the Hills and Streams, oil, 14"x11"
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The Fields of Norman Ridge II, Adirondacks, oil, 24"x18"
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Artist Statement/Bio
"I have lived in cities most of my life; but, for as long as I can remember, I have found wilderness sojourns a necessity. I have hiked, backpacked, paddled whitewater as well as river journeys of many days. I leave behind only footprints and take with me a refreshed spirit and thousands of photographs.
I work plein air whenever possible, even with ice crystals forming on my palette or with hail bouncing off my canvas, sometimes until there is so much water on my work that it won't accept one more brushful of paint. At such moments I'm enjoying a dialogue with Creation.
In contrast, my quiet time in the studio is spent working slowly, building up layers of brushwork and glazes, puzzling over the problem of creating sweeping space on a two-dimensional surface, of wrestling large mountains into small confines, of capturing a fleeting moment of light and weather.
Each of my paintings is intended as a small window onto the larger world."
Jacqueline has studied drawing and painting at Otis College of Art and Design and at Gage Academy in Seattle. While she considers Teaching Artist Suzanne Brooker her Tsawai Lama, she has also taken workshops with Mitchell Albala, Gary Faigin, David Mollett, and Michele Usibelli. She is a member of Plein Air Washington Artists, Oil Painters of America, and, best of all, the Fall Color Week LobStars.
"I have lived in cities most of my life; but, for as long as I can remember, I have found wilderness sojourns a necessity. I have hiked, backpacked, paddled whitewater as well as river journeys of many days. I leave behind only footprints and take with me a refreshed spirit and thousands of photographs.
I work plein air whenever possible, even with ice crystals forming on my palette or with hail bouncing off my canvas, sometimes until there is so much water on my work that it won't accept one more brushful of paint. At such moments I'm enjoying a dialogue with Creation.
In contrast, my quiet time in the studio is spent working slowly, building up layers of brushwork and glazes, puzzling over the problem of creating sweeping space on a two-dimensional surface, of wrestling large mountains into small confines, of capturing a fleeting moment of light and weather.
Each of my paintings is intended as a small window onto the larger world."
Jacqueline has studied drawing and painting at Otis College of Art and Design and at Gage Academy in Seattle. While she considers Teaching Artist Suzanne Brooker her Tsawai Lama, she has also taken workshops with Mitchell Albala, Gary Faigin, David Mollett, and Michele Usibelli. She is a member of Plein Air Washington Artists, Oil Painters of America, and, best of all, the Fall Color Week LobStars.
