Saturday, January 20, 2007

Birds of a Feather Artist Profile: J. Ross

The amazing mixed media (acrylic, paper, and wood) crow pieces by Whidbey Island artist J. Ross keep flying out of the gallery. And it's easy to see why: the artist combines a unique technique with an obvious deep familiarity with these fascinating birds. J. Ross's statement puts it best:

I am a painter.

My work has a depth, a thickness of energy, and lives somewhere inside the worlds of figurative abstract painting, folk art, and sculpture.

My work is an ongoing conversation between texture and form and Spirit and color.

For the last five years, I have been painting the spirit and energy of crow.

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