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James Jackson

email: [email protected]

cell: 609-832-2773

studio/residence 609-654-5019

website: jamesjacksonartist.com

If you are considering a purchase, or would like to commission a work, please feel free to text or email.


A Celebration of American Painting
Picture
A Place In The Country -  Italy​
12" x 16" 
Oil on Linen 
 
$1850

ARTIST STATEMENT
As an artist, I loved being outdoors and painting the rural American landscape.  I seek subjects that have something to say; old houses, farms, fields, and of course the blue-gray skies and snows of winter.  I strive to see beyond the obvious, and paint the poignant side of the subject.  With paint, a few brushes, color and light, I try to do just that.  I feel my work reflects the rich tradition of the Bucks County Impressionists who made New Hope Pennsylvania a famous art colony.  Living and working in this idyllic setting, these artists painted masterpieces that captured the rich texture, color, and atmospheric quality of the picturesque rolling hills, farms, and the tiny hamlets that contoured this Delaware River Valley.  
 
As a child, my parents exposed me to many of the Impressionists' exhibitions throughout the New Hope area.  The paintings I saw, and later the works of Homer and Wyeth, were about places and things I knew and loved.  My own experiences of exploring the countryside, pursuing game in woodlots, fields, creek bottoms and across the frozen corn stubble of winter, all became the heart stone of my work.  I knew early on that I wanted to somehow incorporate those emotional attachments into my own paintings.  I try to draw upon those early influences in the way I look at life, and the subjects I choose to paint.  I am bound by the pureness of nature, the plays of color and light, and the sometimes human stories that my subjects tell.  My work is an amalgamation of suggested realism upon an impressionistic field in which I strive to express the evocative subtleties of the subject's spirit, rather than simply recording an image.  
 
I am honored that my paintings are included in many fine collections, and features in publications such as Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine.  Several of my works are owned by a Board Trustee of the Brandywine River Art Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.      

Picture
On My Way To Umbria
Artist Signed and Numbered
12" x 16" Giclee Print On Acid Free, Museum Quality Stock
Edition Size: 60 Prints @ $325 Each
Plus Shipping and Handling 

Picture
Morning Has Broken
11' x 14"
Oil On Linen
$2200

Picture
There Is A Season
 14" x 18" 
Oil on Linen 

 $2850

Picture
At The Table
20" x 16"
​Oil On Linen
​$3200

Picture
Driftings
 12" x 16" 
​Oil on Linen 

$1100

"The True Artist Does Not See Things As They Are, But As He Is."
Alfred Tonnelle

EDUCATION
AA Degree - Mercer County Community College, New Jersey
BS Degree - The College of New Jersey
MA Program- The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Courses - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

 
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 
Salmagundi Club, New York
Allied Artists of America, New York
National Arts Club, New York
American Artists Professional League, New York
(8 Grand National Exhibitions)                                                                                                                                                                   
Santa Fe Trail Exhibition - A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art, Trinidad, Colorado
Oil Painters of America -Brazier Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia
Bosque Conservatory Art Classic - Clifton, Texas
American Artist Professional League- Red Bank, New Jersey
Gallery West National Juried Exhibition - Alexandria, Virginia
Impressionism Into The Next Century - Mill Pond House Gallery - Saint James, New York
The John Stover Mill Show - New Hope, PA
Tuckerton Seaport Gallery Exhibition - Tuckerton New Jersey
The American Artist Professional League Exhibition - Pen & Brush, New York
Tenth Annual International Exhibition - Havre de Grace, Maryland 
Waterfowl Arts Festival - Salisbury, Maryland
Richard Schmid Art Auction Benefit - Estes Park, Colorado

Picture
Making The Break CanvasBacks
13" x 10"
Oil On Linen
$2850

Picture
Juans Place
14" x 18"
​Oil on Linen
$1650

Picture
Fallow Field​
12" x 16"
​
Oil on Linen
Sold
$1,495.00 

Picture
Afternoon On A Salt Marsh
24" x 30"
Oil On Linen
$4500

Picture
Almost Noon
12" x 16" 
Oil on Linen 

  $1850

Picture
Morning On Stony Brook
16" x 20"
Oil On Linen
​$2800

Picture
The Last Of Winter
16" x 20"
Oil On Linen
SOLD
​$4500


Picture
An Early Run
Artist Signed and Numbered
10" x 18" Giclee Print On Acid Free, Museum Quality Stock
Edition Size: 60 Prints @ $325 Each
Plus Shipping and Handling 

Picture
Fall Things
14" x 18"
​Oil On Linen 
$2250

Picture
Sawmill In Winter
18" x 24"
Oil On Linen
$3200

Picture
Down In The Valley
  14" x 18" 
Oil on Linen 
 $1200

Picture
Snow Capped 
14" x 18"
Oil on Linen
$1500

SELECTED AWARDS
AAPL,  NJ
​John R. Grabach Memorial Award for Best Oil
Two Time Winner


American Artists Professional League, NJ
NJ-AAPL Merit Award
 
Center for the Arts in Southern NJ
Best in Show
 
Salmagundi Club 
Julia K.. Castro Award for Oil                                                                                                                   
 
American Artists Professional League, NY                                                                                                          
Merit Award for Outstanding work
 
Salmagundi Club, NY  
Merit Award for Outstanding Oil
 
Salmagundi Club, NY
Winter Theme Exhibition

 
AFFILIATIONS

​Salmagundi Club - Artist Member
The American Artists Professional League - Fellow
/Signature Member
Allied Artists of America - Artist Member


James Jackson

email: [email protected]

cell: 609-832-2773

studio/residence 609-654-5019

website: jamesjacksonartist.com

If you are considering a purchase, or would like to commission a work, please feel free to text or email.


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