Snow art: Linda Jarvis

Artist: Linda Jarvis
Website: Linda Jarvis

About Winter’s Chill, Linda writes:
WINTER’S CHILL was a piece I created when I was inspired by a photographed scene of a coyote in a snow covered prairie, looking to the distant vastness around him. I am intrigued by the animals in our wilderness and find inspiration from my observations of them. I created this piece by drawing and painting a coyote on watercolor paper, cutting it out and placing it on a paper cut-out to indicate a ground of snow, then layered it all over a handmade paper background that had white flecks in it, reminding me of falling snow. While in doing this I create distinctive depth between each ground.

SNOW MOON RISING started with a jacaranda pod. Often transfixed by a full moon, I occasionally depict them in my work in some form.  I painted it with acrylic paint and colored pencils. The blue speckled paper is some I have carried around for many years and have rationed it for certain pieces. It so reminds me of falling snow that I had to use it in a piece that would render it so. The halo around the jacaranda moon was torn out of paper. The temple-like gate was creared from rusted street cleaner bristles I found in the streets after they fell of the cleaners brushes. A couple of old, rusted, square nails create the gateway entrance and an Asian coin faces the archway. I separate layers to create depth.

CLOSED FOR THE WINTER was a piece created for a fund raiser for Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Gallery.  All artists were given an 8 X8 canvas to work with. I like metallic things and house shapes so I went for creating a winter scene using metallic tape, pounded aluminum wire, tacks and other various collected objects. The piece felt so cold and wintery to me I imagined heavy snows and low temperatures and because of that closing up and vacating was in store.  Thus CLOSED FOR THE WINTER.

This piece, ARCTIC DREAMS, was birthed through my love of wild creatures.  They are reworked or augmented prints of my original paintings of three arctic animals – the polar bear, an arctic hare and an arctic fox. I achieve this by using acrylic paint and colored pencils bringing them to a point of being very much like an original. The moon shines through the lightly falling snow. The snow covered mountains in the background are cut and folded paper. The moon was created on paper with acrylic paint and colored pencils and placed on a metal rimmed circle of velum paper. All items were then placed within the various layered mats creating depth. Including the mats there are 8 layers.