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.

Designer to Watch - Brian Paquette

Encaustic "Malachite Moon" 2014, Jennifer Ament 

My dear friend, Interior Designer, Brian Paquette asked me if I would hang a few different mediums of art in one these beautiful show homes on the coast of Washington in a town called Seabrook. It is one of the last parcels of land on the coast to be purchased, and it is beautiful. Misty, tree-laden bluffs with long stairways down to the beaches, it is picturesque. For this huge project, I used 4 different mediums. Oil on canvas, Collage, Encaustics, and Linocuts.  He did an amazing job putting it all together, to say the least. Thank you Brian for letting my work be a part of it! 

Electric Planet #115, Collage, Jennifer Ament

Here is a piece from my new series of collage. It is based on Planets, Moons and Suns, not yet discovered. I love how Brian used the green and black together with the piece, it is striking.

And more pics of my encaustic work, and linocuts that Brian put together so beautifully on the stairwell. I am so grateful. Watch out design world, Brian is coming, and you will LOOOOVE him.

Photo's from Apartment 34 and Coco Kelley

Our Home in Gray Magazine

 The Northwest has a new design mag in town, and her name is Gray Magazine. It is all about home interiors, interesting places, and people. My art and I were lucky enough to be in the latest issue, and thought I would share it with you. 

 My family and I are loungers...We like to read, and hang together as a family, and we like comfy, cozy and soft, along with things that are meaningful to us strewn about.

 I had a pair of rusty salmon-ey tufted 70's chairs that were being recovered for this spot, but I didn't get them in time, so these did the job....

I know you probably can't read this, so please head over to GRAY Magazine and check out the issue for yourself! Hope you all are having a great weekend!

Images Via- Gray Magazine here and Photo's by Alex Hayden

More Pics From My Show

I am from the Northwest...You won't hear me complain much about it...I have space, lots of trees, lakes and ocean, great smells, beautiful sounds, space, unique mountain trails that aren't packed with people or worn down, great food, healthy living, space, and most importantly, great family and friends...This art is influenced mostly from living in the northwest, or experiences I have drawn that were influenced from living in other cities.

I have had a weird, beautiful, interesting, and sometimes hard life. Please don't cry me a river, I am over it. (Although my left eye does still twitches compulsively at 3 o clock every day from the horror of 7th grade.)

These are drawings and linocuts from this/that life, and new images that have emerged from the remains.

 Above is my one of a kind wall, I painted these using watercolors or ink...

 Don't we all want to live by this rule? Maybe we should try harder...

I am so happy with the way it all turned out...

These are all at Velocity for your viewing pleasure, or not...

Have a great rest of your week...and I mean that..:)

All Photo's by the super talented Erik Simkins...Thank you Erik!

A Few Party Pics

Here are just a few pics from my show, more will be coming next week. The party was so great, and I feel so thankful for all of the people that came out in the rain, masks or not! A big thanks to John, (The Owner of Velocity) for all of his support with the show, and for the lovely bottles of champagne! A great local event planner,  Renee Ryan Design helped me design the tables, and they looked amazing. The dahlia arrangements were INSANE. Beautiful job ladies. 

I created clusters of gallery walls, one being the idea of a N.Y.C. park avenue apartment from the 60's, a masculine nautical cluster, and a Boho 70's Topanga canyon cluster.

Accordion player Bonnie Birch was pumping out the serious parisian tunes all night.They were great.I would hire them again in a N.Y. minute...

I brought handmade artisanal chocolates with little bits of dried ginger, orange peel, apricots, cherries, and nuts, on the most delicious dark chocolate, and of course traditional french macaroons, (from Bakery Nouveau!) and they went a tad too quickly...Good thing I set one aside for later.. 

My friend Becky Atwell made these insanely beautiful masks for me and my husband...LOVE them...Thanks Becky.

Uncle Beefy from the bedlam of beefy (one of the BEST blogs ever!), came out to say hi, and I was so grateful.

 Cassandra LaValle from cocoandkelley, (another best blog EVER!), that for some reason I didn't get a picture of, came out in support. She is fast becoming another great friend. 

One of my best buds Stacy Kendall, from one of the most exciting magazine coming out of Seattle in a long time, Gray, online now, and going to print in a couple of months! Featuring all things amazing, beautiful, cool, or delicious, in, or around, Washington. 

And the end of the night we had a fabulous dinner with my buds, Laura Burkhart,(above),(who just revamped my new website, and it looks great!) and my constant dinner pals Leah Ball Steen, Kelie Grosso, who I also somehow didn't get photos of!?  And new bud Bradford...

Thanks for dinner lads and lasses...

More pics to come...

Hope you all have a great weekend...

Photo's by me

An Evening of Art and Disguise

I hope you will join me in celebration of a new season, and to check out 
some recent work of mine.I have always wanted to go to an event {big or small}, 
where you were asked to wear {Truman Capote party-esque} masks and here is my,
{our}, chance! And being an avid music lover, I could not get the idea of an 
accordion player out of my head, and so we added that to the mix. John Tusher 
from Velocity Art and Design, was kind enough to offer to throw an opening 
night party for the month-long exhibition of my work, 
and I hope to meet you there! 


P.S. My uber talented husband, Barry Ament, did the beautiful graphics on this invite for me. Thanks sweetie!

New Painting....

This is a new piece I just finished. The series is called Dripping Sunsets...I am happy the way it turned out...

Hope you are having a great week!

New Work...

Some of my new pieces for you all to check out...Let me know what you think...

Limited Edition Prints of 30, sometimes 10.

jenniferament.com

The AMAZING photographer John E. Hollingsworth took these photos.

New work...

"Sunset : The Day After"

This is a piece from my new series of encaustic paintings, 
(which involves a hot wax and paint or oil sticks), titled, "Sunset",
each with their own sub-title
of an effect that has made them what they are. 
I will let you interpret what event may have occurred
that made these "Sunsets" the shapes and colors that you see..It is hard to see all of
the wonderful details within the wax in a photo, but hope you enjoy...:)


Jennifer Ament Art

My Show at The Vera Project

Thursday I had a show at The Vera Project.
Check out their website here. 

They have been doing great things for the Art and 
Music community in Seattle, for quite some time now,
and we are lucky to have them.

New Works.

Many of my pieces for summer are based on creatures of the water. Northwest scenes like Herons,Whales, Hawks, Swallows, Hummingbirds, and the insanely gorgeous ferry boats that we have going back and forth all day with our island commuters on board. Island living here in Washington is quite desirable . Yes, there are people with big money that have the luxury of living on the water, but there are also the organic farmers, nomadic hippies, writers, and artists. Many that live on modest means and bike back and forth to the ferry when they need to go to town.When you come to visit Seattle, do not miss taking a ferry boat across the pond, for a beautiful hike or swim.
The wall above was part of my June show at Capers in West Seattle-206-932-0371.
This is one of my largest pieces measuring 23 inches long and 12 inches wide. I have it placed above our shiny black piano.This piece can only be found at Veritables in Seattle, or Bellevue, 206-322-7782.


My website is only days away from being ready, and there will be approx. 10 pieces for sale there. jenniferament.com

My latest work...I think this is my favorite bird so far...N.W. Heron