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| Center Stage Palette and Palate at the Comus Inn By Dominique Agnew |
As her children got older, she found that she had a little more time and began spending more time on her own work. There was a direct correlation between the teaching and her art. Every day the students showed her a fresh point of view. "I learned a lot from my students. I became a better teacher, and the teaching made me a better painter." Even now that she's no longer in the schools, she teaches workshops across the country and continues to learn from her students. "My students are older, but almost childlike in the appreciation of the art." Along with her teaching, Caroline is involved in numerous art shows across the country which is what brought her to our neck of the woods. During an art show where her work was displayed at Black Rock Center for the Arts in Germantown, Caroline met Dr. Goodwin, president of the Comus Inn at Sugarloaf Mountain. He was impressed enough to purchase one of her works for his home. He was also impressed enough to feature Caroline at the Inaugural Reception for the Visiting Artists' Program at the inn - Palette and Palate. On March 24, the doors of the inn were open to the public to come meet Caroline Jasper, view her work, and listen to her speak of the events that shaped different works and the emotions she tries to capture and evoke. This, in a roundabout way, brings us back to Red - the color that makes us think of "blood, violence, and Valentines." Red is the color that is the attention-getter, the one that draws us in to look more closely. Interestingly, the human eye has more cones and rods for the color red than for any other color. "Red is part of the initial impact that interacts with other colors." Caroline says. "It can mingle really well with bright colors, or it can be juxtaposed so other colors aren't actually touching each other." It is no surprise that she ended up writing a book about color. While she was teaching a workshop at an art expo in Pasadena, California, agents from Watson-Guptill Publications of New York approached her about a book. While she wanted to write a whole book about red, she managed to reign in her impulses. She hopes Powercolor covers everything about color, the practical and the realistic, with an emphasis on teaching and working with color - the sort of book she was never able to find for herself. Nine other artists contributed with different approaches to the subject matter, each chapter closing in the studio of the artist. Surprisingly, Caroline avoided a red canvas when experimenting with different colors, "I thought it would be hard to deal with it," but finally found that the emotional impact of red was what she was seeking. She found much of her technique comes from a sequence of experimentation. "Most of what I do is in direct opposition to what I was taught." she adds. Sometimes, by the time her painting is finished, there is hardly any red left, a revelation considering the vivid beginning of the work. Many of her works are still on display at the Comus Inn, for admiration or for purchase, many of these being more architectural in scope as that was what drew her to the inn. She also has many of her paintings displayed on her website www.carolinejasper.com where one can view incredible waterscapes and intense landscape. |
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The subjects of her works include a variety of landscapes and waterscapes, and, frequently, structures of an architectural interest of varying sizes - from staircase, to a gate, to a house. While this may seem like a wide variety of subjects, it becomes evident that she draws strongly on the style of the Impressionists, capturing strong swaths of light while avoiding the blending of colors. Caroline grew up on Maryland farms outside of Ellicott City and Hagerstown, spending much of her time outside. "I was always outside as much as possible," she says. "I enjoyed the beauty of nature, as corny as that may sound." Corny or not, it has been a driving force in her art and in her life as she is still an avid outdoors-woman playing golf or simply walking with her camera. Why the camera? It just isn't practical for her to paint en pleine nature, sometimes a color of paint must dry for a few days before she can add the next color. Another driving force from Caroline's childhood is her mother who was very artistic. She encouraged her in all her artistic endeavors for which Caroline has a natural aptitude from a young age. Many of her childhood pieces of art were saved; one of them, a drawing Caroline did while riding in the car at the age of six, is on the dedication page of her newly published book, Powercolor. Of course, the book is dedicated to her mother - her mentor. From the farmlands of her youth, Caroline went to college in Baltimore and earned her Master's Degree in Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. While working towards her Bachelor's at Towson University, she knew she wanted to major in art, but she didn't know what she was going to do with it. Destiny intervened. During the summer between her freshman and sophomore years, she was a camp counselor at a comp for teenagers focusing on the arts: visual arts, dance, drama. "I was hooked," she said of the experience. She went on to earn her teaching certificate and taught middle school then high school in the Baltimore County system. |
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The food is delicious; the view is incredible; the wine, sublime; the ambience, perfect. Do you know where you are? Did we mention the art hanging on the walls is inexplicably beautiful? That just gave everything away. Seeing Red |
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