bio

Jamee Linton-Kelly, originally from Aiken, South Carolina, obtained her MFA in Painting and BFA in Illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Jamee has exhibited her work in venues both in the United States and Europe, including  Paris, London, Dublin, Portland, Atlanta, and New York. Her work has received special attention in a number of publications including: New American Paintings, The Atlanta Magazine, The Portrait of Portland Magazine, and The Oregon Home Magazine. Her paintings were recently featured on HGTV’s "Deserving Design". She currently resides in the beautiful, sometimes rainy Portland, Oregon.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Landscape painting is a vehicle through which I study life and nature.

Through the landscape, I channel emotions into an image that is

beautiful and representational of my surroundings. My paintings

blur the boundaries between realism and abstraction while maintaining

a connection to the world around us.

I allow my imagination to be a guiding influence as I reconstruct

the landscape. Through the process, I create a balance between

the real and the ideal. The result is an image that embodies

the essence of both the physical and emotional world we exist in,

one that invites each viewer to connect to their own ideal impression

of place and time.

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