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jenny nelson attended maine college of art in portland, maine, and graduated with a bfa from bard college where she received a scholarship to the lacoste school of the arts in france. she has been living and working in woodstock, new york for 18 years. her early artistic training was focused on the classical and representational but it has always been her natural instinct to depict the surroundings in abstract forms. most of the paintings evolve as an intuitive reaction to her surroundings, be it interior space, inner space, or landscape. to evoke this kind of sensory memory in her work jenny applies many layers of paint, using gesture and an internal sense of color. traces of previous layers will remain visible, allowing colors to interact in ways they could not have anticipated. her compositions develop through a series of decisions that are both conscious and unconscious. with great sensitivity to these evolving colors and forms, a very personal abstract language emerges. she tends to focus on particular shapes or compositions for long periods of time resulting in a series of closely related paintings. the paintings are an ongoing process of addition and subtraction until everything on the canvas co-exists with a depth and intensity that seems balanced.
the sun travels 2018
oil on canvas
48 x 36 inches
$6,000
blue at the horizon 2018
oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
$9,500
buoyant 2018
oil on canvas
60 x 60 inches
$12,000
island stay i 2018
oil on canvas
16 x 16 inches
sold
island stay ii 2018
oil on canvas
16 x 16 inches
sold
to the bridge 2018
oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
sold
tide in 2017
oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
$6,800
telling stories 2017
oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
$6,800
little island 2017
oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
$3,600
racing sail 2017
oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
$3,600
you're it 2017
oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
$3,600
bonsoir 2017
oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
$3,000
east end 2016
oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
$6,800
siler lines & points of light 2016
oil on canvas
40 x 40 inches
$5,800
bridge 2016
oil on canvas
40 x 40 inches
$5,800
second landing 2016
oil on canvas
40 x 40 inches
$5,800
blue and white winter day 2016
oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches
$4,800
swim 2016
oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
$3,600
point to line 2015
oil on linen
30 x 30 inches
$3,600
sconcet
oil on linen
24 x 24 inches
sold
pine key 2013
oil on linen
24 x 24 inches
$3,000
with violet 2013
oil on linen
18 x 24 inches
$2,600
notations 2015
oil on linen
11 x 14 inches
$1,200
flying kites 2016
oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
sold
heart, eyes, arm & hand 2015
oil on linen
36 x 48 inches
sold
i fly to the moon 2016
oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
sold
threefold 2017
oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
sold
between blue & yellow 2017
oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
sold
good magic 2017
oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
sold
arch 2017
oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
sold
everything that can be 2016
oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
sold
the shore that holds the line 2016
oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
sold
water down below 2016
oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
sold
site seeing 2016
oil on canvas
40 x 40 inches
sold
daydreamer 2016
oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
sold
channels and paths 2016
oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches
sold
forms from memory 2014
oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
sold
ida blue 2016
oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
sold
skirting the walkway 2015
oil on linen
48 x 48 inches
sold
bella 2016
oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches
sold
every summer they come to visit 2015
oil on linen
48 x 48 inches
sold
diving for pearls 2014
oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
sold