“I have only a desire to paint what is my own – wholly and completely from within – along with the offerings of the earth and her daily miracles of color and light. When I begin a painting, I take inspiration from a beautiful light, […]

I am a self-taught artist living and working in Asheville NC.  Inspired by the French Masters of the late 19th Century, I favor the wet on wet approach of oil painting “alla prima”; emphasizing tonal relationships and sound draftsmanship with broad sweeps of a loaded […]

“A painting creates an emotion just like a story does. As long as you’re emotionally involved somehow, you’re going to keep on reading, you’re going to keep looking, keep being drawn into the story, into the painting.” Jenny Buckner was born and raised in the […]