Bill Jobson
For as long as I can remember, I have tried to capture events and scenes around me, early on with a Bic ball-point, preferably black ink on mom’s typing paper. While subjects of fantasy and high drama were aspired to at first, gradually absorbing the visual impressions and truths of a working-class Bronx upbringing, which impacted me in a more profound way. I felt surrounded by unfinished stories.
I think of each of my paintings as a random page fallen from an unknown book, illustrating a passage that can only be imagined. Thus they are free to become their own story.
I have exhibited at the Edward Hopper House Art Center in Nyack, New York, and at the Salmagundi Club in New York City. I have served on the Board at Salmagundi and as President. I currently serve on the Board at The American Artists Professional League.
I work mostly in oil paint on a variety of surfaces including canvas, wood and paper in a range of sizes. While the subject in the piece is based in reality, I see it as a principal in a great drama. They are still but have action and motion, and have their place in the light.
There are undiscovered things we pass by every day. I try to take another look.
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For a view of concepts and works in progress, visit my ‘Open Sketchbook’ here.
