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Artist   Statement

Like many people, I loved art as a child. However, my path led me in a different direction. After a horse riding accident I developed CRPS, a rare neurological disorder. A friend challenged me to stand up every day for ten minutes and just draw. I accepted and by week two I was standing for fifteen minutes at a time. I discovered that art took me to a peaceful place where pain couldn’t follow. Fifteen years later and five years into a form of remission I have found myself painting every minute that I can. I can’t find the right words to describe the emotion that art holds for me. It has allowed me to live again. I try to portray a feeling with my work. I have found that art can be an individual emotional experience. Art is life!

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance”—Aristotle

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Art is a form of free expression, and a way to churn emotions into something tangible, raw, and sometimes even beautiful! I live my days as a mom and a wife, a business owner, a designer and creative director, a traveler, and lover of art, music, and nature. I thrive on the entrepreneurial daring of business, problem solving and pivoting as new challenges present themselves. I am passionate about the nature of design, creating spaces that not only function but are unexpected, intimate areas of reprieve. I love the nurturing intuition of being a parent—it’s one of the most rewarding risks to work to raise independent, kind, happy humans. As a family we enjoy traveling together, being inspired by history, nature, art, and culture. All of this influences my artistic moments.

I have always been a Creative, an Empath, and an Artist. My artistic journey has evolved from writing and poetry to journalism and photography, to mosaic and collage, to interior and architectural design. Painting is a new medium for me; one I started exploring during the pandemic. There were many highlights of 2020 where many of us were feeling a new level of fear and anxiety, even hopelessness. And helplessness. I was at a crossroads where reinventing myself felt necessary. I spent nearly all my free time (sheltering with a family of four including two teens) experimenting on board or canvas, listening to music, and putting my fears, my thoughts, my emotions to work. That passion evolved into a serious craft that I depend on. Using mixed media, with paint as the base, I build layers and textures, adding depth, color and making marks as I go. Some work shows angst, while other work feels more at peace. That is life. Life is beautiful. Life is fleeting. Life is now so, live each day without regret and do what makes you shine. That is my promise to myself as I carry on this journey. 

Thank you for taking the time to read my statement, and to view my emotional expressions!

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 ARTIST STATEMENT

I love the neighborhood environs in West Seattle, and value the relationships I’ve built with neighbors, merchants and other local artists. 

I’ve always been fascinated by cars and buildings, both as objects of design and as vessels for our collective history and memories. My paintings attempt to capture their souls and tell stories of the places they’ve held in our lives.  

I approach them with a playful sense of humor, and always strive to offset the subjects with compelling patterns and backgrounds.  I think my years of architectural drafting find an echo in the detailed linework and graphic lettering in the paintings.

Recently I’ve been experimenting in a more three-dimensional direction by doing shadowboxes combining paintings with vintage toys and other recycled objects.

ARTIST BIO

I grew up on the east coast.

And I was around art from an early age, with a mom who did painting, printmaking, sculpture and fabric arts.  I moved to Washington for college and have been in Seattle for over 30 years, and a West Seattle resident for twelve years. 

I did visual arts in high school and college, but my career has been in architecture and interior design. In my fifties I decided to devote more time to artmaking, and when my mom passed away in 2017, I vowed to honor her memory by taking the drawing and painting abilities she sowed in me and developing them as far as I can.  Follow Tom Costantini Art (@tomcostantiniart) • Instagram photos and videos 

Tom's available work at Fogue Studios

Artist Statement  

Jamie Curtismith is a gregarious loner, contemporary mixed media artist, lifelong journaler, prolific essayist, dabbler in fiction, grappler of poetic short forms, and scrapbooker of beingness. 

Jamie works in many mediums, using words and images to deconstruct complex interpersonal experiences and current universal issues. Her unique style of Provocative Propaganda transcends the neo-expressionism of our post-truth reality. Using recycled materials and scavenged resources, Jamie lay­ers multifarious substances to build an understanding of corporeality, which she calls the SWARM. 

Jamie also happens to be an Engineer with an MBA. She’s worked as an engineer at Boeing, a stockbroker on Wall Street, owned and operated several of her own businesses, taught college level business classes, directed the SBAs NW Women’s Business Center, man­aged Washington States first legal sun grown cannabis operation, and remains passionate about decriminaliz­ing mushrooms. She lives with her artistically endowed mother and creatively brilliant teenage children in Everett, WA. 

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