Art isn’t just an image on a wall or in a museum. It could be a song you just heard, a video you watched, or a dance performance you saw. All sorts of art grasps you in numerous ways and builds your thoughts. Since the start of time, artists have labored extensively to seek out innovative ways to convey sentiments, passion, and feeling.
Jason Anderson is an artist who specializes in Abstract Impressionism. Like most artists, his first step into the world of art was through figurative work. After realizing the deep interest in art, he practiced constantly. As he progressed, his art shifted from figurative work to impressionism and eventually ended up in abstraction. It was the pandemic that resulted in the development of a huge social media presence. His artworks are portrayed on the Instagram handle @jasonandersonart, which has more than 300,000 plus followers.
Jason art career began with a stained-glass apprenticeship, during which he was lucky enough to work on restoration projects such as York Minster, Gloucester and Wells cathedrals. He quickly progressed onto design work which taught him to compose and stylize subject matter around a ‘jigsaw’ of painted glass which is an approach which still drives his work today. And from the gothic stained glass today Jason Anderson has moved on to album covers. In fact, in 2019 he created the cover of Billie Eilish’s single “Everything I Wanted”.
Being fascinated by color, Jason works with a strong palette to create deep impasto effects with paint. He relishes the nature of mixing and arranging the paint in thick impressionistic daubs and produces a kaleidoscope of shape and tone which portrays the ever-present movement and energy found in nature. This approach creates a painting which, like the landscape, is constantly changing. So, as you move around the room and the ridges of paint catch the light, there is always something new to see.
The coastline of Dorset in South West UK where he lives is his greatest inspiration for his pieces. Jason idolizes J.M.W Turner. Tuner once said “I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don’t succeed because they don’t learn it. Labor is the genius that changes the world from ugliness to beauty and the great curse to a great blessing”. He also considers Gustav Klimt as one of his greatest idols. Jason message to fellow artists is to work hard and be brave enough to develop what is inside.
Telling stories and making an attempt to unlock the minds of individuals is what art is all about. Art touches and affects people in distinctive ways and every individual may have a completely different view of the same piece of artwork.
