Jeanne Golightly Gustafson
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Education: BFA, Southern Methodist University
Commercial Art Career: Art Director for Jamison Film Co.
Design Consultant for International Graphics
Free-Lance Design and Illustration Studio
The challenge of rendering the beautiful light, colorful shadows, still or moving water in a painting is pure bliss. Hill Country pastures, streams, coastal shores, boats, fields of flowers and waterfalls are all subjects I find exciting. I love to paint in my own back yard. The gardens and the pond with a spring-fed stream, koi fish and waterlilies offer constant inspiration.
The same thrill is there whether I do a still life painting in the studio or in our gardens. I arrange a collection of objects that have a strong sensory and sensual appeal to me. I love to capture the luminous and mysterious quality of handmade vessels and ancient objects. I feel that there is a lovely spiritual relationship between nature and these objects.
I very much agree with Jeff Legg, an artist whose work I admire. "Truth is the essential ingredient in making art. The human soul is hopelessly bound to express it."
Feel free to email me at j.g.studio@swbell.net
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