Previous Jobs I have had....

These are in progress photos taken by my friend Garth Stanley back in July 2000. I had originally made this painting to be Green on top of a white ground. Alas it didn't turn out that way and now when you look at it. It has visions of blood and gaping wounds...but also at the same time it give you visions of flowers blooming. So it is death and birth all in the same painting. What I always love to call a beautiful accident. They usually make for my favorite paintings.

My progress on "A Cleansing" July 2000









Notice the hair. Yes I had quite long hair back then. It was a bit on the difficult side to take care of. I figured I had the hair for over ten years, so i'd go with having short hair for another 10 and then go back to the long...I might break that promise to myself.

Solo Worthington Arts Council show coming soon

Solo show in December 2008-February 2009

Here's where you can find more information about the upcoming show for my artwork. This is to be a monumental event for myself.



















http://www.worthingtonarts.org/

Worthington Arts Council from Dec. 1, 2008 - Feb. 1, 2009 at the Worthington Municipal Building

http://www.worthington.org/index.cfm

Joseph Marioni Interview and show

I wanted to share some new videos I've just helped upload to youtube so that I could help show them to the world. This is a film of Joseph Marioni speaking at an opening of his work at the Dartmouth Museum.

http://www.umassd.edu/torch/07-08/i6v54/ae.html

I have always known that Joe is an amazing speaker about art and painting, I know he's make for a great writer because he's got such a great way with words and his knowledge of art and painting is outstanding. As you can witness with these 7 videos.

Joseph Marioni September - November 2007

Joseph Marioni at a talk about his work in his show...Five Paintings which was exhibited at the Uni of Mass at Dartmouth.

I must give thanks to Philippe Lejeune who filmed this event and put it online for all to witness, and to David Boyce who curated this show.















You can learn more about Philippe at his site...http://www.arteda.net/

Restoring my family photos

I have recently, with the passing of my Father on June 4th 2008, began to help my family out by using my knowledge of computers to help restore a few photos of my Grandparents and Great-Grandparents. It's a truly fulfilling way to spend my time, feeling like i'm slowly helping to bring our family a little bit closer together.

Anyway. You can see the before and after pics on my myspace page...

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=26548733&albumId=2325330

Above is the restored photo of my Grandparents when they were in their 20's...which means this photo is from the 30's. They were quite a couple.

My first review...

I wanted to take a moment to show you once again, in case you missed it. My first newspaper review. This is from the Columbus Dispatch from September 2000. It talks about the Ohio Art League show at the Columbus Museum of Art. Not only was this my first time in any kind of review. But the painting which I entered for the show became the largest image in the newspaper review. I kindly thank Jacqueline Hall who wrote the article, and especially David Reed who picked this painting to be in the show.

Click on the image and you shall see a much larger image for you to read.



Thank you for reading and have a wonderful week!

Jeffrey

"04-30-2008 (Dreaming)"

34" high X 24" wide; are the dimensions of this new painting of mine. The brilliant blue covering all the background gives me visions of the Greek Isles. Their beautiful crystal clear waters with their brilliantly white homes.

I look forward to making much larger versions of paintings such as this.

Included are images of this painting, a lot of them are quite large detailed images that are actually a big larger than if you were to see it in person...which gives you plenty of time to study the perfections and the imperfections. The first image included is the painting in full.



This second image is of the mid section of the painting. Where you can really begin to see the innards of the canvas and it's textures.



Our next image is a vision of the top of the canvas. You can really see from there how the color really defines the textures within the wood filler encrusted canvas.



Here is vision 1 of the left side of the canvas. Click on it and you'll be able to see a much larger detailed image.



Here's detail #2 of the left side of the canvas.



Here's a detailed image of the right side of the canvas. Click on the image and you'll be able to see the much bigger image up close and really see the texture and the luminosity of the color.



And lastly an image of the bottom of the canvas. Where you can really see the color and how it pooled up along the bottom edge of the canvas. Click on the image to really see it for yourself.



Thanks for looking. And have a wonderful week.

Jeffrey

New Painting Previews

Here's a few previews of my newest painting. Done with a nice hued brilliant blue overlay on top of a multilayered white background.

I'll get full photos up and online in a day or two.

Jeffrey