This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Landscape painter Jacquelyn Cavish grew up in Tucson, Arizona and earned a BA in Spanish from UCLA and an MFA in painting from UC Santa Barbara. She studied watercolor with Hiroko Yoshimoto and made it her exclusive medium in the 1990's and then turned to acrylics.
She has taught in the art department at Oxnard College in southern California since 1991. In 2003 she began working at the Ventura County Maritime Museum as Curator of Art. Her paintings were purchased by the Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard and the City of Ventura Municipal Art Collection.
She is a founding and signature member of the California Gold Coast Watercolor Society. She has exhibited paintings in juried art festivals including La Quinta and Borrega Springs CA and at Bellevue WA
Written and submitted by the artist, February 2004 |
Biography from City of Ventura Municipal Art Collection:
| “I paint from my observations of the contemporary local scene, looking for color, irony, drama, and I find it everywhere.” This statement is from Jacquelyn Cavish, who was originally a watercolorist but became impatient with the requisite drawing preparations.
She says, “I began to paint alla prima with acrylic on canvas. The immediacy of the process has a great appeal for me, especially in plein air painting.”
Her artwork has been described as having a vibrant and dynamic sense of spontaneity with a strong emphasis on color and pattern. This extraordinary gift for brilliant color and unique composition springs, she suspects, from the strong influence on her work of Paul Gauguin and Japanese artist Ukiyo-e.
Jacquelyn Cavish, who earned an M.F.A. degree from University of California Santa Barbara, now teaches art history and studio art classes at Oxnard College. She is also a founding member of the California Gold Coast Watercolor Society, past President of the Oxnard Art Association and is Curator of Art for the Ventura County Maritime Museum. Her work has been widely exhibited. |
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