|
Now showing:
The Lido Collective Ongoing Exhibit 300 S First Street Mount Vernon, WA 98273 Jansen Art Center Skagit Valley in Color Woodcut Prints By Gene Jaress Fine Arts Gallery 321 Front Street Lynden, WA 98264 April 13-July 7 Rexville Grange Art Show 19299 Rexville Grange Road Mount Vernon WA 98273 November 2023 Puget Sound Group NW Artists Light and Renewal Blakely Hall 2520 NE Park Drive Issaquah WA 98273 April 1-June 30, 2023 Coming soon! NW Art Beat Studio Tour July 15-16, 2023 10AM-6PM Anacortes Arts at the Port July 29-August 6 |
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 |
|
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. I owe a debt of gratitude to the painters, printmakers and jewelers of the highest quality from around the world who helped me become a working artist and master jeweler over the past 60 years.
"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. I owe a debt of gratitude to the painters, printmakers and jewelers of the highest quality from around the world who helped me become a working artist and master jeweler over the past 60 years.
"Without craftsmanship inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind".
Johannes Brahms
Juried Events Past 2 Years
- Honey I Shrunk the Art at Matzke Fine Art Gallery 2022
- PSGNWA Great Annual NW Art Exhibit 2022
- 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