Pat Jeffers' Gallery...

A piece of timeworn sage or juniper suggests fluid, amorphous shapes and flow that draw me to the land. An unremarkable pile of rocks has a rhythm. Adobe hills, the bank of an arroyo, wash or the walls of a canyon hint at a place of shelter and sanctuary--a world apart, rooms in Nature's home. These are the elements of my life; and my paintings, just as was true of my weavings, are always about that connection.

I also simply love to paint! My work is not only a response to the land in which I live, but is a celebration of the act of painting itself. While I certainly have emotional connections to the objects in my paintings, they are also vehicles I use to explore the dialogue between the six elements of painting: color, line, shape, value, texture and edge. If I limit my color choices, if I use this texture instead of that, if I emphasize these lines or those values, what does it do to my painting? How do the six elements interact with one another and how do I use that dialogue to share with you my personal vision of the landscape? Those are my considerations when I step up to a blank canvas.