JOLENE ANDERSON - ABOUT ME

ARTIST STATEMENT
I do art because I must. Since I remember I've been drawing on chalk boards, the margin of my papers, napkins, sandy beaches and any blank surface I have within reach. Its a compulsion I can't and don't want to stop. I didn't start "Painting" until after I had my two boys, and I will always think of myself as a student. Always striving to improve on technique and style. I sometimes agonize over these imperfections, but my very good friend Linda once told me, "It is the indecisions that move you forward in life." So I continue to move forward and paint and learn. Another wonderful friend who's advice I will treasure always, once wrote me and said; "So my dear, make art because you will, or you must, or it feels good...make it in watercolor, acrylics, pastels or all of the above. Make it big. small, wild and tame. Let it be an expression, and impression, and an evocation, or a cartoon. You are the artist, whatever you do and why ever you do it it is your art - Pure and Simple." Two very wise women I'm so grateful to have behind me and encourage me on my painting journey. They like life day to day breathe painting into my soul and make art a continued need in my life. I hope my work pleases you in some small way because the pleasure I get by doing it is too big to keep to myself. enjoy, JOLENE

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Los Gatos Native--Jolene Anderson--has been practicing her passions of illustration and watercolor for over 15 years. Appropriately tagged, "a natural", she hails from a family of artists, including her parents and grandmother.

Jolene has studied and painted under the tutelage of numerous published artists and authors--and traveld to China to paint at the Beijing Institute of Art, she continues to study to keep fresh.

In addition to her clear talent with the brush and pen, Jolene continues to design sweatshirts, ties, business cards, letterheads and logos. Recently, she has begun to design, produce and sell an awesome array of custom cards--exciting and colorful photographic reproductions of her original art.

Jolene's animated and spicy personality is reflected in her relaxed, airy style. Her soothing watercolors and delightful illustrations are a welcome respite for today's harried world. Jolene shares her numerous talents by offering after-school art classes at local elementary schools, and private classes for adults at her in-home studio.

Jolene's personal palette includes her contracting husband, two exquisite sons, one art dog with seperation anxiety, and a bathtub full of gold Fish...Oh, and a yard full of roses.

Welcome to my studio	Artist and the WALL
matting and framing	The unfinished painting