Brent Jenson Country Village Landscape Impressionist Oil Painting on Board 34"

Description

An American country landscape painting by Brent Jensen. The oil painting is on masonite and features a rural setting with an early 1900s cottage and barns set infront of a vast forest background. Cows are seen in the pastor towards the front. The painting is signed along the lower right and framed in wood with beveled front and gold finish.

Brent Jensen, 1958 - Evanston, Wyoming

Raised in Wyoming and living in California Brent Jensen is a plein-air landscape painter whose intention is to depict the colors of nature. He describes his style as impressionist. While he lived in Santa Ana in southern California, many of his marine and landscape subjects were from the Monterey coastal area. He also paints lighthouses in Maine, oyster boats in Florida, market places in Seattle and vineyards in California "as well as sites in 30 other states in between". (Nelson, 63). He lives in Northern California, on Mare Island.

Of his work, he says: "We all lead such hectic lives. I want people to come to my paintings and have the works bring them peace and solace."

Arriving at this stage of his creative life was something Brent Jensen began doing full time in 2007. For many years he was an architectural illustrator, doing photo-real renderings of building designs. In 2002, he went to France on a painting trip and took classes from C.W. Mundy. This experience made such an impression that he was inspired to take up more seriously the plein-air painting that he had 'dabbled' with earlier in his life. Especially inspiring relative to style and approach were the words of Mundy: "The power of suggestion is greater than the statement of reality." Setting up his easel in a quiet, pieceful place is also very important to Jensen, who chooses his scenes carefully and in places that provide interesting color tones, something he likes to limit to six.

Condition

Very Good; Gently Used

Dimensions

28" x 2" x 34"; board 18 x 24`