Piece description from the artist
"The Windy Hike" – acrylic skins on board – 8"x10"
Inspiration from a 2021 Fall trip that included an adventure up an obscure mountain pass. I pulled off a few times and this was an area where I got out and walked a little as the wind kicked up. Since I started painting landscapes with acrylic paint in Sept. of 2021, I felt a burden to save the skins on my palette from each painting session, knowing I would one day turn those perfect landscape colors into it's own painting. This process is especially intriguing because it IS paint, yet since they are dry, I can cut them and have a painterly—collage of sorts. The best part is I'm "recycling" paint.
I am drawn not only to the beauty within a scene, but am careful to include beckoning elements of light/shadow, repetition and depth. Scenes chosen revolve around a dance of light/shadow and it's own sense of invitation to explore; pathways are common to include for this reason. Quiet, hidden, reflective/introspective….lush; these are things I look for. I am polarized by scenes that make me forget my troubles and I feel "enveloped", even if just for a moment.
original is in simple black frame
By Jennifer Sowders
I.G.: mongallery.us
www.MONgallery.us
Growing up on a ‘dead end’ road in the country; Northwest Ohio-native artist, Jennifer Sowders, grew up spending a lot of time studying nature and it’s indelible thread is noted within her painted landscape and figurative series bodies of work.
A 1994 BFA graduate from the Columbus College of Art and Design, she has signature membership in: Ohio Watercolor Society and Watercolor USA Honor Society. She holds associate membership in: Allied Artists, American Impressionist and National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Societies.
New to acrylic landscapes as of 2021, she debuted with an honorable mention in AcrylicWorks 9 : The Best of Acrylic and has been a finalist in every issue since. She is also an avid watercolorist, having 2 pieces in the Ohio Arts Council collection.
Her most recent accomplishments have been in receiving 2nd place in the landscape division of the Artists Magazine’s 40th Annual, and Grand Prize in International Artist magazine's Landscape challenge 2 years in a row ('24&'25).
She is currently represented by the Toledo Museum of Art’s Collector Corner, Gallery 317 (Bryan, OH) and is actively welcoming further representation as well.
Jennifer opens up her Fostoria, Ohio studio and gallery space: MONgallery and Art Studio, every MONday to visitors. She coined “MON” to represent “Middle Of Nowhere” because of her rural location where she lives with husband, Gary and has 3 sons.
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