studio: simpsonville, kentucky
studio visit: may 2010
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Location influences my artwork and I am inspired by the events that I experience in my daily life. I paint from the rural setting of my studio and incorporate these environments into the artwork and filter these images through memories and dreams to capture a sense of a place. They are a transitional space that marks contemplation of the past, the future, and memories. In the process, these ideas converge and the creation emerges showing the journey. The pieces become maps of these fictional places full of layered imagery from my surroundings. It is an odyssey of discovery of my relationship to everyday life, and the development of a personal language to express the fragments from these experiences. Thus, creating fictional realities that capture a sense of whimsy and wonderment of what surrounds me and the final result is the creation of dreamscapes.
– Jennifer Laura Palmer
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- exterior studio, simpsonville, kentucky
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- entry to studio
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- back of studio
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- work in progress
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- detail, work in progress
Thank you for your feedback, John. It was wonderful to have you visit my studio.
I have been feeling the urge to get my hand back into oils and I want to complete a few pieces over the summer. I have grown to love drawing and the immediacy that the medium provides versus the patience I need for the oils. For the new oil paintings I want to bring what I have learned from the drawings and become more spontaneous with them and see what develops from that practice.
it was great to see your work all together like this… often i only see a few at a time. it is interesting how the oils informed the works on paper for me. there was something about he texture of the working and reworking of the oils that translated to the delicacies of your works on paper.
the delicacy and translucency is most powerful and really brings out the quality of the paper. i think these are the most successful. the interplay between positive and negative spaces as well as the nuance of line and wash… they are fantastic spaces.
the opposite goes for the oils… the laborious work in adding and subtracting really brings the piece to life and comments on variations and subtleties by way of manipulation. the energy in scale also helps brings these massive spaces to life.
will you continue will oils?