Jef
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Artist (painter, printmaker, sculptor, photo maker |
| Location | Portland, OR, United States |
| Introduction | A West Coast boy, through and through. Still roaming the world from home base Portland, Oregon. I like to make things. I'm a maker of images. I paint, mostly from the large forms of nature, in encaustic, gouache, ink and collage, and oils. Also etchings and monotypes. My styles range through a number of series, but all that will become apparent through this blog. Or you can go to my web site for a quick look. jefgunn.com. My intentions here, which I hope will become clearer to me as I go along, are to present thoughts and images on art, and mind, and nature or landscape. I'm interested in wild nature and our relationship to it as humans. How does land and water become landscape? Also, tame nature: how we appropriately or inappropriately inter-act with nature. Wendell Barry said in a poem, "There are no un-sacred places. Only sacred places and desecrated places." I'll show my work from various series and media, and write a bit, and then see what happens. |
| Interests | art, of course, the light at dawn, people, colors and their friends, shapes and forms, dragons in the sky |
| Favorite movies | too many to mention |
| Favorite music | 20th century chamber music, modal jazz, other jazz, folk music, baroque, weird stuff from the world, bosa nova, flamenco, |
| Favorite books | The Art of Mu Xin, Don Quijote de La Mancha, Bones of the Master, El Amor y Otros Demonios, The Poems of Wang Wei, |