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September Issue 2004
Somerhill Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC, Features Works by Kathleen Jardine
Somerhill
Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC, announces a solo exhibition of recent
watercolor and oil paintings by Kathleen Jardine. New figurative
and landscape paintings will be on display through Sept. 17, 2004.
Jardine's artworks in oil and watercolor are part of important museum, private and corporate collections all over the country. The following is an excerpt from the August 2004 issue of The Artists Magazine.
"A signature member of the Watercolor USA Honor Society, Kathleen Jardine was born in Torrence, California, grew up in Oklahoma, and received an MFA from the University of North Carolina. At home in the woods of North Carolina, she gets from place to place by riding a horse."
'The first drawing I remember doing was of my mother nude, walking a poodle. I think a lot of our talents and drives are embedded in us in a way that we don't fully understand. I got an MFA when I was about 40 after I'd already taught myself. My son's birth was the real making of me as an artist - the reverse of what most women consider the effect children have. My son has been my main subject. Painting him was a way to know him, to understand what he was, and my compulsion to paint him made me grope my way along technically. I'm a glazer - an endless reworker."
"I love a complex, built-up, reworked surface where there are thick and thin passages of paint, and places, too, where the ground is still visible. My sense of reality is more sociological than psychological; an individual is most understandable to me in a cultural context. [When painting] One idea summons the next and I start sticking things in, willy-nilly. Painting isn't an act of reason; it's more like reading an omen or an augury, the way the ancient Greeks read the entrails of a bird. The heart of what I do is sitting and staring at things. It creates a kind of brain activity that's probably a lot like dreaming."
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