About

Inspiration:

 

Art from the heart starts in the mind, actually. In this sense, the “heart” is the part of the mind connected to the deepest inner feelings, so deep that they sink down from the cranium to the heart, the gut, the spine, and through and through. The dreams we have of forgotten places. Ideas we have while in nature, meditating, or daydreaming. Pain, pleasure, and all feelings in between, including ambivalence and numbness.

 

Please navigate to J’artery blog or see descriptions in the shop or gallery for the specific experiences and ideas behind artworks.

 

Education:

 

Jasper has had some art education and has also learned on their own, but does not have a fine arts degree. Rather, they did study art in school; their Bachelor’s degree is in the subject of biology! Human designs are often inspired by nature, and when designs are created outrightly in the stylings found in life or the natural world, they are biophilic. Drawing on lifeforms, the cosmos, bodies of water, and geologic structures at the microscopic to gargantuan scale, but also on imagining a different version, J’artery Art is rarely entirely abstract or realistic, but a mixture of both.

 

Style:

 

Contemporary art is difficult to place into a movement or genre, and artists might identify with the movement of the past that resembles their artwork while being separate from it or making a fundamental change. Because Jasper relies on subconscious messages from dreams and improvisational creativity, and uses a semi-real style, they are something of a surrealist. However, as with many artists of the contemporary era, they diverge frequently from artwork that is of the surrealist genre and into artwork that is based on conscious experience, theories, and other ideas. 

 

Abstract expressionism, with the use of gestural, emotional brushwork, as well as allowing some chaos through using varying levels of liquid dripping, channels, marbling, and splatter, is also an enormous part of this artist’s stylistic set.

 

J’artery Art can be stylistically defined not only by what goes into the artwork, but also the end goals of it. Mesmerization is a hypnotic sensation that can be summoned using visual stimulation that triggers specific feelings. The shapes, textures, and colors that Jasper selects are meant to soothe and excite in complementary action. No matter the specific emotions conveyed in an artwork, the piece is meant to draw the eyes in and comfort them by following a natural visual path.

 

Materials:

 

Jasper mainly creates using graphite pencils and/or mineral paint, a paint that is composed of clay and natural, non-toxic compounds. It can be glossy or matte in finish, though Jasper often opts for matte. Artwork before late 2023 and occasionally after may contain acrylic paint or be on an acrylic-primed surface.

 

Using less water, Jasper reuses cloths to wipe the paint away from their brushes before washing. They use a brush rinsing set which allows painting anywhere and preserves water. Further, the paint water reservoir can be secured to dispose of according to environmental conservation, health and safety standards. Mineral paint is septic-tank and sewer safe, but Jasper does not recommend dumping any paints or paint water in nature. 

 

Less paint is used because it does not need to be mixed again after accidentally incorporating incidental paint onto the brush from used paint water. The brush rinsing device runs a minimal amount of clean water into the brush washing pool, and can be drained into the reservoir, automatically pulling fresh water into the rinsing pool. This technique gives a painter more control over their color intensity over time while using the same painting set.