Jennifer Joyce: Oil and Acrylics
Since 1970, Jenny has resided in Oregon, currently in Portland but for over thirty years in Estacada where she was a founding member of the Artback artist co-op. This group has 14 community murals in that town within the same number of years.
Through the Artists in the Schools program, Jenny has completed over 50 murals with children throughout the state.
Currently employed full time as an artist for McMenamins, which encompasses a number of historic hotels, brewpubs, movie theatres and music venues.
One of Jenny's landscapes is used as a background in the T.V series “Grey’s Anatomy."
Artist’s Statement
The visual arts have always resonated with me. I am currently working with subject matter that is inspired by art history, the world around me, and images emerging from my unconscious. The journeys people make in their lives are representative of a universal dynamic, one that I feel compelled to capture in various images. I am a big believer in craft and skill, as the paintings itself communicates ideas through a vocabulary of shapes and colors. The satisfaction of painting for me is the process of bringing a nascent idea to a complete image. The need to paint is compelling and deeply satisfying until the next image is trying to shape itself and the process starts all over again.
In my earlier work the landscapes are idealized, gentle and soft-edged, inviting the viewer to a safe haven. My current work is narrative, dream-like, thought provoking and multi-layered, using color to enrich the image and focus the composition.
I work with acrylic and oil. I create decorative art, illustrations and murals for McMenamin Kingdom. My work is currently being shown at the Spiral Gallery in Estacada and the Rental Sales Gallery at the Portland Art Museum. I have worked on eleven community murals in Portland and Estacada, and was the lead artist on four of them.
I received a B.S. in Fine Art Education from Hofstra University in New York 1964. I moved to Chicago in 1967 to pursue a career as a full time artist, focusing on abstract expressionism and collage. After relocating to Portland OR in 1969, I began to work on representational landscapes. Since 1990 I have been working with both whimsical and surrealistic imagery. I am a founding member of the Artback, a nonprofit artists’ cooperative formed in 1992 to create public art in the small rural community of Estacada OR.
I work primarily in acrylic on primed watercolor paper, oil on canvas, acrylics on walls and wood panels, watercolor and pen and ink studies.
Jenny had a show in August 2010 at the gallery entitled "Drawings from the Mind". Some sketches still available. Contact gallery for more information. See also the recent Estacada Newspaper article written about Jenny here. Click on images to enlarge.
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