Jonathan Jackson
Antelope on the plains, 2020, Acrylic and oil pastel on paper 45 x 45”
Describe your artistic style in three words.
Color, Expression, Imagination
What's inspiring you right now?
I mean everything that's happening right now is some type of fuel one way or another. The Virus, Police Brutality, Etc, etc.
What do you do when you're feeling uninspired?
Walk, ride my bike, something to get me out of that state of mind. Usually putting myself in a new environment works. When my brain can pay attention to something else is usually when I can fall back into being inspired. Also constantly experimenting helps me when I am uninspired. Bored with something, don't know what to do? Experiment! Make list of different types of mediums or disciplines you would like to try, when you are feeling uninspired bust out the list and start experimenting!! I am a big believer in probability so when you experiment or try new things you're raising your probability of hitting a break through. Break throughs can have a higher probability of happening, if we are working more and we can work more by always having some to do. With the list even when you are idle you can still work on pushing forward with something.
Tell us something unique about your process.
It brings me a stability.
What advice do you have for other artists?
“Make work and show it to people. While they are deciding if it's good or not make even more work.” — Andy Warhol
Abstract bird num 0045, 2020, Acrylic and oil pastel on wood 25 x 30”
Red Sun, Grey Mountain, 2020, Acrylic, oil pastel on paper, 40 x 50”
Red flower num 23 Alternate version 3, 2020 Acrylic, oil pastel, collage on hand pressed paper, 11 x 14”
Color meditation #234, 2020, Acrylic on paper, 9 x 10”
Jonathan Paul Jackson is an African American Visual Artist from Houston, Texas. He works in Painting, Sculpture and Illustration. In 2011 after a hiatus he started producing a series of Oil pastel works Jazz greats, Political figures and everyday objects. His other works involve experimenting in Neo‑Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism.