Jill Finsen
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Landscapes, The Cape
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Some Finsen Paintings in Private Collections
<span class="text"><font color="#666666" class="text"> <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0" align="center" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <td align="right" valign="top"> <h1 style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img align="right" width="200" vspace="10" hspace="10" height="155" alt="" src="/users/JillFinsen9263/docs/Image//Jill,%20Moakie%20&%20Three%20Arrows%20Painting.jpg" /></span></h1> <p style="text-align: left;"> <meta content="" name="Title"> <meta content="" name="Keywords"> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"> <meta content="Microsoft Word 10" name="Generator"> <meta content="Microsoft Word 10" name="Originator"> <link href="file:///Users/jillfinsen/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Clipboard/msoclip1/01/clip_clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" /> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin /> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <style type="text/css"> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Times New Roman"; panose-1:0 2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Geneva; panose-1:0 2 11 5 3 3 4 4 4 2; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; panose-1:0 3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-font-alt:Palatino; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.MsoBodyText, li.MsoBodyText, div.MsoBodyText {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; tab-stops:6.0in; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; color:black; font-weight:bold;} p.MsoBodyText2, li.MsoBodyText2, div.MsoBodyText2 {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Geneva; font-weight:bold;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <!--StartFragment--> </meta> </meta> </meta> </meta> </meta> </meta> </p> <p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">My paintings explore the formal and emotional content of landscape and still life. A central focus of my work begins with vernacular New England scenes—coastline, architecture, woods and marshes. Raised in Eastern Massachusetts, with summers in Maine and on Cape Cod, I return to the region as frequently as possible to further reexamine this set of personally iconic elements.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Each painting is a journey, from representation to abstraction and from visible hues and shapes to more psychologically charged compositions. Working almost exclusively in oil on board, I choose sizes and formats (which vary from intimate 6-inch squares to 72-inch triptychs) that best capture each scene’s complexity. Through surface texture, color and the play of negative and positive space, I intend the work to function as a ground that delights and gently challenges viewers.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; color: black; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">I work in the spirit of primitive or naïve styles, using composition and color to balance forms and rhythms and the directness of the palette knife to create a distinct and whimsical exploration of surface. With allusions to the works of early 20<sup>th</sup> century American painters and the Fauvists, my paintings embody a tension between familiarity and abstraction, drawing viewers in, yet leaving unresolved their placement within the imagined space</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-weight: normal;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: left;"><small><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></small><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p> </td> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <td align="right" valign="top"> <h1 style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /> </span></h1> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h1 style="text-align: right;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /> </span></h1> <p> </p></font></span><br> <h1> </h1>
