jessie pollock

Artist Statement / Biography

I mostly paint contemporary landscapes inspired by the area in which I live and places to which I travel. My painting training was Renaissance painting so my colors tend to be earth tones. I do many layers and a lot of texture building using 'cold wax medium'. Often I use antique bits of artifacts to imbue a sense of time passing. It's a telling of the story that nothing is permanent but it is also an honoring of those before us. Recently I started including stones and bronze artifacts of natural shapes. The objects are placed in boxes affixed to the wood panels.