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Jamie
Young began drawing and sketching at age four and never
stopped.
She
never uses a camera for composition. Instead, pinned to
each canvas is an elegant black and white sketch of the
scene that is unfolding, stroke by stroke. "Each painting
is a meditation. By sketching it, I have a direct involvement,
a meditative connection with what I am doing. A sketch is
a way of being present that a photograph can't provide because
there is no prolonged interaction."
From
the large canvases standing like sentries around the big
studio (it is a renovated barn on 100-acre Berkshire farm)
one feels an insistent pull, a personal engagement with
each painting. She--Jamie--has seen something out there,
and she is bringing it back for us with mythic poignancy.
The results are painstaking, sensitized, beautiful. What
she sees and how she sees it is often a pathway, a gateway.
She says,"Pathways are changes, and I'm always looking
for the way through. Not just for myself, but for the viewer,
too."
Jamie
Young has reached that point of artistry where her particular
vision and years of technical craftsmanship seem spiritually
guided for a communion on canvas.
It's
no wonder that her paintings---now well-known throughout
New England after score of shows and exhibitions- are selling
off the gallery walls. In Michigan, followers of Jamie Young's
work are adorning their homes with Jamie's forested canvases,
thanks to Gallerie 454 in Grosse Pointe,  and
its owner Marc Doren. Mr. Doren points out that "traditionally,
landscapes draw in the viewer. Jamie's work holds you in
place." Peter Hastings, author of "Who's Who In
American Art" notes that Jamie Young has been called
"one of the leaders of a broad movement often referred
to as The New American Impressionism. Hastings adds, "we
sense a similar spiritual intimacy in the poetic landscapes
of George Inness...her best paintings are fresh translations
of nature's energy into visible form."
-Exerpts
from the article “Something Holy, Something Haunted”
by Jeane Bice |
