Art Life | Alison Jardine

What’s In A Name?

December 18, 2009

This week, I’ve continued my work on my largest work in my series exploring the motif of the tree, and trees. This latest work has officially been named, an important step for me as expressing in words for me is almost as beautiful as in paints. When one names something, for that moment one captures [...]

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Open Studio Sale

December 4, 2009

I am hosting an Open Studio Sale, offering works of art from just $100, ready framed! They are the perfect recession-busting way to give the gift of fine art to yourself, or your loved ones. Please come and visit me on December 11th at 6pm till 9pm, and December 12th at 11am until 4pm. Refreshments [...]

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Still Life as a Mirror

November 29, 2009

I am working on this new still life, showing the bottles and cans on my table. This table is a large glass tabletop on two trellis legs. It is incredibly versatile for me, as I can use it directly as my palette, and it is a huge surface for me to spread out my paints [...]

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Sketchy Outlines

November 21, 2009

Today I began sketching out the composition for a new oil on canvas still life, showing the bottles and brushes on my glass table that I use as my palette. These bottles sit transparently toning the light that slides down their glass sides and passes through muted, overlapping and creating new and subtle greys, greens, [...]

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Daily Painting ~ $100 artwork project

November 11, 2009

These paintings are part of my daily painting project. A mixture of landscape (en plein air), still life, abstract and figurative, this page will feature daily paintings that are for sale for just $100 (excl. shipping). Email me at ali_Jardine@hotmail.com if you would like to purchase one. It’s a great way to own or gift [...]

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Future Imperfect

November 10, 2009

My new series of works is laden with emotion for me as an artist. Stepping into consciousness of the flow of time in my own life can be tormenting and exhilarating, a seeming contradiction. One the one hand, there is the recognition of achievements, of survival, of love, the accumulation of knowledge and to some [...]

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Matisse and Me

November 4, 2009

This is a self-portrait, that may or may not be finished. The colors are inspired by Matisse, and this piece is nearly a homage to that great painter of color. I say almost, because it has other themes too. It is framed by music art, and by the art of political posters, in the posture [...]

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Me, Myself and 200 school children

October 29, 2009

One thing in particular I appreciate about the Dallas Museum of Art is how often ~ and creatively ~ they change their exhibitions. Today, I decided to spend a few hours there with my notebook, to refuel my creative juices. It is always a particular delight to visit on my own, when I have no [...]

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Workin’ 9 to 5

October 13, 2009

Saturday was chilly. It really was. I had the pleasure of having been invited to paint to attract attention to the Plano Art Association exhibit that was on display at the Courtyard Theatre in Plano, TX. It was the Fifth Annual Plano International Festival, which is held in Haggard Park, in central Plano. The Courtyard [...]

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