JANE JACOBS

ARTISTS STATEMENT

As a psychotherapist, artist and meditation practitioner, what is important to me is relationships. The relationship between one person and another, the darkness and the light, emptiness and fullness, motion and stillness, one color and another, elevation and depression, so that nothing is in and of itself, but is conversant with the other.

I am also interested in the small and humble, the used, reused, imperfect, handmade, the particular, human. I like to look at things very closely, repetitively, and feel a connection to what I observe. Observing and feeling become joined in the process. The shapes, the quality of light, the relationships of parts to one another, the “interbeing” of the entire process is my meditation. To have a more intimate relationship with the objects or people I am painting, to let that relationship as I paint inform my consciousness, is for me, the purpose of my work.