Art
Original painting of "Montana Field"
- Item Number
- 309
- Estimated Value
- 100 USD
- Opening Bid
- 34 USD
Item Description
This is an original oil painting from scenes in southwestern Montana on a 12x12 canvas. The artist, Jackie Koenig, and her husband love the Lord and are great supporters of Young Life.
Donated by Fredericksburg YoungLives.
Item Special Note
Artist Bio:
I was fortunate to grow up the the same city as my grandmother, Stella Thompson, an artist herself. As a young girl I would go over to her house to work on different projects. We would draw, paint and create old fat ladies on the beach out of sculpey clay. Over the years my painting skills developed and my love for the arts grew. I went on to take art classes in high school, minored in studio art at Christopher Newport University in Virginia and continued to paint wherever I moved.
I met my husband in college and we decided to move to an island called Cape Hatteras in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The landscape of this area heeded endless ideas and inspirations- dunes, waves, wildlife, beach goers and marshes. 3 years later we joined a Christian missions organization in the northwestern part of Montana. I found myself, yet again, in a place filled with natural beauty and color, furthering my desire to create.
I have always used oils for some reason. Acrylics are fine but oils are great. I paint fast and messy. I am impulsive and hardly have time to clean my brush before i pick up the next color. I love the fluid nature of oils and their ability to change a painting so quickly.
I love painting in plein air and the freedom I find from not squinting at a photo but often tend to work from a photo. I love photography almost as much as painting and when I'm taking pictures I often take them with paintings in mind.
My husband and I now currently live in Richmond, Virginia with our 8 month old son John. I've learned that staying at home with a baby requires lots of compromises and there are certain things worth giving up to be with him. Painting is one I'll hang on to though. It's something I can do to lose myself. For me there is always great satisfaction in seeing colored shapes and strokes come together to form an image that reflects something beautiful.
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