Jess Webb Exhibition December 11th- January 21st.
About Jess:
Even though Jess is a self-taught artist, she would like to acknowledge the places where she practiced and received kind support…
The Anavami Studio in Santa Cruz, California with Majio, the Michelle Cassou workshops in San Francisco, and the Bill Park Studio in Portland, Oregon. She exhibited her works at all of them and had a solo show at the Townshend Tea House in Eugene, Oregon. She has been painting for 25 years.
Many and varied artistic endeavors have held a lifelong passion. She learned hands-on adobe making and design in New Mexico, and log cabin design and construction in Newfoundland and Northern Wisconsin. On the 40 secluded acres she shared with her husband and two children, living off the grid and helping to grow their own food, she learned what creative living entailed.
As a young person, after studying theatre at Lawrence University, she performed with Arena Stage in D.C. as well as with other traditional venues there. At the Bread and Puppet Theatre in Vermont with Peter Schumann, she learned puppet making and improvisational theatre, and toured at various U.S. locations. In New Mexico with the Caravan of Dreams, she engaged with other “Irrationals in Hope of the Impossible,” whose projects included the origins of Biosphere 2 at Oracle, Arizona and esoteric studies at Synergia Ranch outside of Santa Fe. Always at the ready to see where the wind may next blow her, she studied shamanism with Martín Prechtel in California and other southwestern locations, and is a practicing meditator of Surat Shabd Yoga, having received initiation from Kirpal Singh in 1972.
More recently, as a writer, she has contributed to several anthologies including Sacred Earth and Liberty. Breath Death Soul, as written by the Sisters of the Holy Pen, and Sacred Stone, Sacred Water: Women Writers and Artists Encounter Ireland. Also included in the publication, along with her writings, are two of her paintings inspired by her travel.
Ever enjoying a varied and interesting life which still inspires her creativity, her 80 years have taught her mostly about engaging in the heartfelt art of living. Large scale painting has given her a platform for exploration into the mysteries of articulating sacred space as she senses it.
About — Paintings From The Well – Jessica Webb
Artist Statement:
The art of painting can be thought of as a spiritual journey, with brushes being the sacred instruments of expression.
Artists offer their varied interpretations of reality to entice the viewer into new insights. It is a subjective experience which invites a change of perspective. Contemplating a work of art can induce reflection, confusion, curiosity, or a simple enjoyment of the moment!