J. Gordon

I was initially trained as an oil painter, but my first love has always been drawing, specifically with graphite. The medium has a soft poetic quality that speaks to me, and I find my work drifts towards embracing the stark whiteness of an empty page, like a thick pale fog, from which I coax small spirits and creatures out of with small stones.

More recently my love of the brush and the calligraphic mark has brought me to ink and some of the painterly approaches I spent so many years with have found a new outlet intertwined with my drawing practice.

Biography

Artist and educator J. Gordon earned his BFA and MFA in painting from the University of Kansas and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts respectively. While his current professional practice centers primarily around the medium of drawing, he incorporates aspects of traditional and contemporary painterly practices in both his teaching methods and mixed media art works.

Currently located in Shoreline WA, he lives at the edge of the deep dark woods with his family and a murder of crows they've named Eloise.

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