AND NOW, AS SEEN ON
"MACBOOK MODEL"
http://macbookmodel.blogspot.com/2009/0 … ganza.html
(Please send me a message before a friend request, unless we've worked together.)
On my blog I post new work when I get around to it. Some of the work on the blog goes well beyond the limits that can be posted in my MM portfolio:
http://jonathanherbertstudio.blogspot.com
The previous series I was consumed with is called "Naked Girls". That speaks for itself. Drawings, gouaches, and/or acrylics on paper. And my great love, OIL ON LINEN.
The current body of work is called SEX AND DEATH. I don't really need models for the DEATH PAINTINGS, those are paintings of my late wife. I do need models for the SEX paintings.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
Painting I believe, is prayer; thus my work is the direct, 21st-century descendant of the medieval monk’s devotional vocation.
Further my approach to art is based on the understanding that the role of the artist is similar to that of the shaman in primitive societies. It is our calling to go where the rest of the tribe cannot, bring back the experience of those difficult spiritual realms and translate it for general consumption.
For example I, a member of our necrophobic society, immerse myself in my wife’s journey into death; the paintings that result are gut-wrenchingly powerful and deep, but ever so more gentle than “that good night” which claimed her. Alternatively, in a society conflicted about sexuality, I fan the flames of my libido, drink in the eroticism of my models, and pour that energy and experience onto canvas and paper. I see beauty in desolate city streets and agony in a rose opening under a twilit sky.
Oil painting is an alchemical process wherein the substance and the painter change each other.
The trinity of sex, death and redemption are the themes I explore in my art.
CONTACT INFORMATION
I can be reached at
jhstudio68@gmail.com
www.jonathanherbert.com
Really, check the blog.
http://jonathanherbertstudio.blogspot.com
