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If you like our writing, we’d be much obliged if you would click the ❤️ or the 🔁 icon on this post so more collectors, art lovers, and artists can discover us on Substack. 🙏 Jennifer SampsonBoldBrush Recommends: Jennifer Sampson
Read on boldbrush.substack.com Welcome to BoldBrush Collector, a daily newsletter featuring today’s finest visual artists. Today's Newsletter is Brought to You by BoldBrush CircleCreating Art is about Creating Magic. BoldBrush Recommends: Jennifer SampsonGet Notified When Jennifer Posts New Art BiographyBorn in California, Jennifer Sampson is a plein air and studio oil painter who has lived all over the world. Her interest in art began at a young age (she enjoyed drawing Ninja Turtles), and then intensified in high school, when she won a scholarship to attend a summer art camp in Kerrville, Texas. After one year of college in a visual arts associates program, she decided her time was better spent working as a figure model and pursuing a residency at a Zen center, where she was surrounded by Japanese calligraphic art. A desire to be able to read the characters led her to take Chinese 101 at Syracuse University, and it spiraled from there. Jennifer moved to Taiwan in 2007, initially planning to stay only a year, but wound up staying many years and finally finished a bachelor's degree, in Chinese literature. Throughout her time on the island, she continued painting on gessoed paper taped to the wall of her room and eventually compiled her paintings into a collection that became part of her thesis. In 2015, she moved to Australia to obtain a master's in translation and interpreting. On Saturdays, she attended a plein air class at the Julian Ashton School of Art, which whetted her appetite for the outdoor pastime. After returning to the States in 2017, Jennifer took a job as a copy editor near the Adirondacks, where she remains for the time being, enjoying the quiet of the countryside and the awe-inspiring beauty of the mountains. Artist's Statement For most of my adult life, I've painted urban landscapes, primarily in the studio, because I've found myself in urban environments. While I initially was drawn to subject matter with strong contrasts between shafts of sunlight and shadow, I find myself increasingly interested in the subtler shifts in tones on gray, dreary days. What I love most about urban subjects is being able to translate some forgotten corner or gritty scene into a piece that shows the viewer something they might not have noticed otherwise. Over the past few years, I've been taking advantage of the beautiful location I find myself in to practice landscapes. I struggle more with nature because I esteem it so greatly. If it's already perfect, how can I hope to do it justice? So I'm working to push past my feelings of inadequacy and instead focus on the enjoyment of being surrounded by beauty, practicing, experimenting, and hoping it turns out. Learn More About Jennifer Sampson FASO Loves James Crandall’s oil paintings! See More of James Crandall’s art by clicking here. Wouldn’t You Love to work with a website hosting company that actually promotes their artists?As you can see, at FASO, we actually do, and, Click the button below to start working Get Started with FASO for Free New Artwork by FASO Members Your art could be here tomorrow, for free.
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