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Now showing:
The Lido Collective Ongoing Exhibit 300 S First Street Mount Vernon, WA 98273 Jansen Art Center Illuminations Juried Exhibit Photography 10/20/22-1/6/23 321 Front Street Lynden, WA 98264 Coming Right Up: Honey I Shrunk the Art Matzke Fine Art Gallery & Sculpture Park 2345 Blanche Way, Camano Island Nov 26 2022 - Jan 29, 2023 Rexville Grange Art Show 19299 Rexville Grange Road Mount Vernon WA 98273 April 2023 Jansen Art Center Spring exhibit Stay tuned for exciting news! NW Art Beat Studio Tour July 15-16, 2023 |
Education and Work Bio
High School: Grand Rapids, MI and Spokane, WA. Printing press use, typesetting, cutting negatives for silkscreen, bookbinding, mechanical drawing, wood shop, metal shop, woodblock printing, jewelry (casting and piercing), and wood sculpture. US Army: Throughout his time in Vietnam, Gene continued to draw, paint company logos on helicopters, and use the base darkrooms for photography. Military service provided him with the opportunity to attend college. College:Cornish School of the Allied Arts, Seattle, WA. Sculpture, jewelry, printmaking, painting. Studied with Charles Stokes, Paul Heald, Dale Owen, William Cumming, Gordon Anderson, Stephen Hazel, Anne Praczukowski and Joel Jessen. Cold Mountain Institute, Cortes Island, B.C.: Environmental design in construction through an undergraduate program affiliated with Antioch College. On the job: Gene became a master jeweler through independent study and working with jewelers from around the world while living in Vancouver, BC, and Seattle, WA. Awards: Bellevue Arts and Crafts Fair 1972: Painting, Second Place Federation of Canadian Artists 1974: Certificate of Merit in Lithography International Diamond Awards 1978: as part of the Mastercraft jewelry team PNW Jeweler’s Association Competition 2006, People’s Choice Award (Warren Jewelers) Mount Vernon Artwalk 2017, People’s Choice Award for the painting Refined Living in Anacortes Statement Gene owes a debt of gratitude to the painters, printmakers and jewelers of the highest quality from around the world who helped him become a working artist and master jeweler over the past 60 years. |
Member Organizations
Jansen Art Center Puget Sound Group Northwest Artists Stanwood Camano Arts Guild Coming soon... Online ordering Print only, not matted or framed, unless for local NW Washington State area - Skagit, Whatcom, Snohomish counties. Questions? Please email: genejaress@gmail.com |
In Gene's words...
I have been a working artist for over 50 years. I began working with limited edition woodcut prints a few years after moving to the Skagit Valley in northwest Washington State. The light and atmospheric conditions created by the Salish Sea, Skagit River Valley, and Mount Cultus looming to the east have a strong influence on my work. Good composition and meticulous craftsmanship from the initial image to the finished framed piece creates a high quality, long lasting work of art.
"Without craftsmanship inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind".
Johannes Brahms
I have been a working artist for over 50 years. I began working with limited edition woodcut prints a few years after moving to the Skagit Valley in northwest Washington State. The light and atmospheric conditions created by the Salish Sea, Skagit River Valley, and Mount Cultus looming to the east have a strong influence on my work. Good composition and meticulous craftsmanship from the initial image to the finished framed piece creates a high quality, long lasting work of art.
"Without craftsmanship inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind".
Johannes Brahms
Juried Events Past 2 Years
Awards
Refined Living in Anacortes won the Mount Vernon Artwalk People's Choice Award at the Community Hang-Up August 2017 .
Pacific Northwest Jewelers Association Competition, 2006, People's Choice
International Diamond Awards 1978 as part of the Mastercraft Jewelry team
Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Exhibit 1974, Certificate of Meritorious Achievement in Lithography
Bellevue Arts and Crafts Fair Juried Exhibit, 1972 2nd Place, Painting
- Jansen Art Center Winter Juried exhibit 2022
- NW Art Beat Studio Tour July 2022
- Jansen Art Center Summer Juried exhibit 2022
- Jansen Art Center Spring Juried exhibit 2022
- Jansen Art Center Fall Juried exhibit 2021
- NW Art Beat Studio Tour July 2021
- Stanwood Camano Spring 2021 All Member Art Show
- Jansen Art Center Winter Juried Exhibit 2020
Awards
Refined Living in Anacortes won the Mount Vernon Artwalk People's Choice Award at the Community Hang-Up August 2017 .
Pacific Northwest Jewelers Association Competition, 2006, People's Choice
International Diamond Awards 1978 as part of the Mastercraft Jewelry team
Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Exhibit 1974, Certificate of Meritorious Achievement in Lithography
Bellevue Arts and Crafts Fair Juried Exhibit, 1972 2nd Place, Painting