Jean Arnold

A painter and collage artist of abstract city scenes with bright lights, bright colors and moving lines suggesting fast movement, Jean Arnold creates cityscape images from shapes and colors.  She gets most of her ideas from sketches she does while riding buses in her native city of Salt Lake as well as Chicago, San Francisco and Reno.  She loves mixing together on one canvas scenes from several cities and often swipes her images with oil sticks to create a sense of urgency.  "Traffic lights, trucks, street signs, and an occasional tree or mountain range fuse together in one picture."  Of her work she says her goal is to create "something that is not static but breathing."

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