Artist Statement
My paintings often feel like ethereal atmospheric inner landscapes that are born out of a larger contemplative practice rooted in experiencing the connectedness in our natural world and its rhythms and patterns. My studio is a sacred space for me and is a place where exploration and play become holy acts in a conversation. The process of mixing the paint, layering, mark-making and scraping away is meditative and stirs an inner dialogue, a connection, that starts a raw flow from deep within. The painting becomes a record of that journey and a path of healing and deeper understanding.
Photo by Katie Hall Photography, photosbykatiehall.com
My mission
I am an artist who is passionate about living a creative life. I love finding beauty in the ordinary, value in the discarded and lessons OF impermanence IN life and nature.
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Special collective series finds home at Blue Moon Gallery
Featured Poetic Collaboration
Endless Winter by artist Rebecca J Stahr
Oil and Cold Wax on Arches Oil Paper
Endless Winter
by J.A Calvillo
The narrowing days consume the aperture’s light
As winter’s hands dress the warm soil in blankets of white
And too, summer’s passions flicker away into the last embers
Before a frigid grasp claims foolish lovers; lost and not at home
Safe, in golden slumber; awaiting the sweet songs of spring’s rite
That gainsay a death’s epilogue and ease the peril one remembers:
How the isolation and regeneration grasses of brome
Swayed and soothed away an endless winter’s night.
Check out more poems by J.A. Calvillo at jac-jacasa.blogspot.com
Abstract Artwork available for Home Decor
and Corporate InterioRs
Does your interior design project require a unique solution? Corporate commissions and custom artwork consultations available. Make an appointment to see my in studio gallery space.