Insignia

The lovely photographer Dorthee took some beautiful photographs of my encaustics that are up in the the Insignia Towers in downtown Seattle. It's been a whirlwind of a year so far and I can not wait to see what the rest of the year has in store for me. I'm deeply thankful for everyone who has continued to support me and the love and light that radiates through my community.

New Linocuts

"Mexico City" 2016

"Monstera" 2016

These are from one of my latest series "Land of Mystics", you can view the rest of the series on my website!

Feature in Architectural Digest Magazine

I have been waiting and wondering if this would ever come out, and it finally has! My encaustic painting is featured in Architectural Digestt! Pilar Guzman's Hamptons mansion is insane, and I am so grateful.

New Year, New Goals, New Inspiration

Unlocking The Truth - Malcolm Brickhouse & Jarad Dawkins from The Avant/Garde Diaries on Vimeo.

Happy New Year to you all, I hope everyone had a great holiday! I am very excited for this year, I have a lot of new paintings I'm working on and can not wait to see what else unfolds in 2014. Here is some inspiration to kick off the new year; these boys are total bad ass's and great reminders to always stand up for what you love and do your art the way you want to do it, not the way other people think you should do it. Bring it on 2014.

Our Adirondack Trip, and Our Continuing Obsession With Lakes...

Taking excerpts from this months Elle Decor, Sue Halpern writes,

 "Once the summer haunt of cultured and sophisticated New York, here the Rockefeller's, Posts, and other industrialists built their "great camps", where luxury mixed with rustic style. There are 46 Adirondack mountains over 4,000 feet, known as the "high peaks", and almost all of them have well maintained trails. There is not a better climate than in the Adirondacks in the summer, the average temperature is 73. There is no humidity. Just make sure you come after the black flies have left in early July. Protected by law, as the Adirondack Forest preserve, in 1895, it became the country's first wilderness playground. It is bigger than Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Glacier national parks combined.But unlike those places, which were established to ensure the existence of wild spaces largely removed from human habitation, the Adirondacks is a 6 million acre patchwork of of public and private land where the human community coexists with the wild one."

My entire family history is steeped in Upstate New York or, the Adirondacks. Both my Mom and Dad are from there, and I have always felt a connection to it even though I am firmly planted on the West Coast. My mom just bought an old "Camp" on Chateaugay Lake, that was originally built by my great, great, grandfather, who was once the Senator of New York, after blowing his arm off while duck hunting. (weird story, I know) This was our first summer there, after extensive renovations and clean up, and we had so much fun! The initials of kids who stayed there in the 1920's are still there, all the way up to the 1980's. West Coast history has nothing on the East Coast, everywhere you look there are small, late 1700's early 1800's cemeteries, gorgeous old houses crumbling from age, and a wealth of old timers ready to tell you their story.

One of my favorite things in the house...This phone....

 I love big ol' screen porches, where the breeze can come in, but the bugs can't...   

The cemetery where almost my entire mother's side of the family is buried. 

Cemeteries are everywhere in New York. You don't see them nearly as much in Seattle, especially the tiny little ones that are everywhere, which must have only had a few family's buried there. I feel like the tradition of getting buried has lost some steam in recent years. It seems many more people just want to be cremated, am I wrong? I don't think I want to waste valuable resources, like land, or even money, on getting buried, and yet I have so much respect for the tradition of it, and the beauty. The old tombstones, the beautiful old family gates are so interesting. They always bring me out of my little fantasy world for a moment and make me realize how quick we are to forget about our own mortality.

My sweet boy having the time of his life in the sand.

My mom's amazing house that she grew up in...My grandmother still lives there.

Next up... Sag Harbor... Hope you are having a happy summer! 

Photo's by Jennifer Ament

New Website!

My new website is up! jenniferament.com   I am selling unframed prints, 

and will update often.

My new "paintings" site will be coming soon. 

Let me know what you think!

 Hope you are having a great week! 

Encaustic LOVE...

 I have a few encaustic pieces in the works and hope to find a venue for a show soon, as I am kind of obsessed with the colors and forms in this series...Working with hot wax and a blow torch makes one feel slightly powerful, and dangerous, and because I usually feel like I am neither of those, maybe it is my form of self-help... Probably more like I just LOVE painting with wax, building layer upon layer, melting them into one another, and then scraping them away is sheer bliss...Very meditative...

 I LOVE this one...

I was thinking asteroids and pieces of stars shooting down from the sky..

 My hot plate with the melted wax...It is a messy sport lemmy tell ya...

Ouch, caught my shirt on fire....Just kidding....Maybe wax splashed in my eye...Just kidding again...


Have a good week!

Montana Love...

We go to Montana every summer and have the time of our lives, and this summer was no exception. Flathead lake gave us plenty of love, and we enjoyed every second of our addiction to water, and water play. We have a boat and go wake boarding in Seattle a lot, but we haven't tried the "surfing" craze yet, where you ride the wake with a mini surfboard, and no bindings to hold your feet...I now have another addiction in my life, which I CANNOT stop thinking about...It is a BLAST.... 

 Don't laugh at the picture above...;)

There was a few of us, and kids galore. They had a horrible time as you can tell from the pic above...

 Oh, and paddle-boarding? Can I tell you how other-worldly, 

and almost meditative that is, on a lake with not much traffic? 

 A Golden Eagle. Pretty rare sighting, but we got lucky a few times...

 Too bad you couldn't see my bright golden glitter pedicure in this pic, because it was AWESOME.

 My handsome hubby skippin' some serious rocks.

Hope you are getting out and enjoying your blessings...

All photo's by Jennifer Ament