"Torrents of the French Broad" Painting

Jason Rafferty is a painter and draftsman based in Asheville, NC. A recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, he holds a BFA degree in painting from UNC Asheville and has pursued classical training in drawing and oil painting in the US and France since 2010. He has studied at Studio Escalier in Paris and Argenton-les-Vallées, France, the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas, and apprenticed with the landscape painter John Mac Kah. His artwork has appeared on the Travel Channel and can be found in private collections across the US and internationally. Jason has exhibited regularly in group and solo exhibitions in the Southeast US since 2012. In 2016 he was commissioned to create artwork for the Oscar-winning film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, directed by Martin Mcdonagh. His work was selected as an alternate for the XL Catlin Art Prize exhibit in 2018, a highly competitive US survey of the best student figurative artwork with jurors from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MoMA, the Whitney, and Gagosian Gallery. He was selected to be a featured emerging artist at Four Bridges Art Festival in Chattanooga, TN in 2017, and in 2016 was invited to the Winter Show at Greenhill Art Center, a annual survey of the best artists in North Carolina. Jason also enjoys collaborating with and supporting local nonprofits and businesses in the Asheville area with his art. He has donated artwork to fundraise for organizations including the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, River Link, Open Doors, Western North Carolina Aids Project (WNCAP), Appalachian Wildlife Refuge, and Pisgah Legal. In addition, since 2015 he has taught drawing and painting classes at Riverview Station Studios in Asheville, NC’s River Arts District.