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This piece depicts a bank in Marin county California--on the north of San Francisco Bay. Having spent my childhood here, I returned in 2014 to the area to live for a while. I was struck by how certain buildings triggered memory and nostalgia, and something about this 1960's era building made me recall running around as a wild teenager, waiting outside convenient stores to ask someone to buy fags, or meeting friends just to hang about. I took a snap off my iPhone but also used google street view screenshots to make an amalgam image reference. This means the painting is largely informed by the textures and qualities of the images I worked from. I glazed the painting and sanded and scraped it multiple times to give it a worn down, distressed look, somehow to show the tiredness of old memories that do not serve a purpose to your life in the present. These paintings create a series entitled The Connectivist’s Dilemma. I portray architectural features of American suburban homes either contained by the Scottish landscape, immersed in mytholocial drama, or as memories.   Home represents a utopian desire for connection and community, but also speaks to middle class consumerism.  The idealization of the familiy and home as a symbol of middle life success plays into my own contradictory feelings of being in a home caring for a young child and handling domestic duties. Additionally, as I paint in attempt to integrate my identity, the houses I portray in my my Edinburgh studio reveal my nostalgic longing for my childhood in California. I investigate the modern migratory individual’s fragmentation, in which one must reconcile  and assimilate different aspects of oneself.    Home is a longstanding theme in my work, but always the exterior, always on the outside looking in. The aim of these paintings is to express home as both real and conceptual, to cultivate my own sense of home, and to invite the audience into a space of belonging and interdependence.
This piece depicts a bank in Marin county California--on the north of San Francisco Bay. Having spent my childhood here, I returned in 2014 to the area to live for a while. I was struck by how certain buildings triggered memory and nostalgia, and something about this 1960's era building made me recall running around as a wild teenager, waiting outside convenient stores to ask someone to buy fags, or meeting friends just to hang about. I took a snap off my iPhone but also used google street view screenshots to make an amalgam image reference. This means the painting is largely informed by the textures and qualities of the images I worked from. I glazed the painting and sanded and scraped it multiple times to give it a worn down, distressed look, somehow to show the tiredness of old memories that do not serve a purpose to your life in the present. These paintings create a series entitled The Connectivist’s Dilemma. I portray architectural features of American suburban homes either contained by the Scottish landscape, immersed in mytholocial drama, or as memories.   Home represents a utopian desire for connection and community, but also speaks to middle class consumerism.  The idealization of the familiy and home as a symbol of middle life success plays into my own contradictory feelings of being in a home caring for a young child and handling domestic duties. Additionally, as I paint in attempt to integrate my identity, the houses I portray in my my Edinburgh studio reveal my nostalgic longing for my childhood in California. I investigate the modern migratory individual’s fragmentation, in which one must reconcile  and assimilate different aspects of oneself.    Home is a longstanding theme in my work, but always the exterior, always on the outside looking in. The aim of these paintings is to express home as both real and conceptual, to cultivate my own sense of home, and to invite the audience into a space of belonging and interdependence.
This piece depicts a bank in Marin county California--on the north of San Francisco Bay. Having spent my childhood here, I returned in 2014 to the area to live for a while. I was struck by how certain buildings triggered memory and nostalgia, and something about this 1960's era building made me recall running around as a wild teenager, waiting outside convenient stores to ask someone to buy fags, or meeting friends just to hang about. I took a snap off my iPhone but also used google street view screenshots to make an amalgam image reference. This means the painting is largely informed by the textures and qualities of the images I worked from. I glazed the painting and sanded and scraped it multiple times to give it a worn down, distressed look, somehow to show the tiredness of old memories that do not serve a purpose to your life in the present. These paintings create a series entitled The Connectivist’s Dilemma. I portray architectural features of American suburban homes either contained by the Scottish landscape, immersed in mytholocial drama, or as memories.   Home represents a utopian desire for connection and community, but also speaks to middle class consumerism.  The idealization of the familiy and home as a symbol of middle life success plays into my own contradictory feelings of being in a home caring for a young child and handling domestic duties. Additionally, as I paint in attempt to integrate my identity, the houses I portray in my my Edinburgh studio reveal my nostalgic longing for my childhood in California. I investigate the modern migratory individual’s fragmentation, in which one must reconcile  and assimilate different aspects of oneself.    Home is a longstanding theme in my work, but always the exterior, always on the outside looking in. The aim of these paintings is to express home as both real and conceptual, to cultivate my own sense of home, and to invite the audience into a space of belonging and interdependence.
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The Bank Painting

Jessica Kirkpatrick

United Kingdom

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 22.8 W x 22.8 H x 2 D in

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This piece depicts a bank in Marin county California--on the north of San Francisco Bay. Having spent my childhood here, I returned in 2014 to the area to live for a while. I was struck by how certain buildings triggered memory and nostalgia, and something about this 1960's era building made me recall running around as a wild teenager, waiting outside convenient stores to ask someone to buy fags, or meeting friends just to hang about. I took a snap off my iPhone but also used google street view screenshots to make an amalgam image reference. This means the painting is largely informed by the textures and qualities of the images I worked from. I glazed the painting and sanded and scraped it multiple times to give it a worn down, distressed look, somehow to show the tiredness of old memories that do not serve a purpose to your life in the present. These paintings create a series entitled The Connectivist’s Dilemma. I portray architectural features of American suburban homes either contained by the Scottish landscape, immersed in mytholocial drama, or as memories.   Home represents a utopian desire for connection and community, but also speaks to middle class consumerism.  The idealization of the familiy and home as a symbol of middle life success plays into my own contradictory feelings of being in a home caring for a young child and handling domestic duties. Additionally, as I paint in attempt to integrate my identity, the houses I portray in my my Edinburgh studio reveal my nostalgic longing for my childhood in California. I investigate the modern migratory individual’s fragmentation, in which one must reconcile  and assimilate different aspects of oneself.    Home is a longstanding theme in my work, but always the exterior, always on the outside looking in. The aim of these paintings is to express home as both real and conceptual, to cultivate my own sense of home, and to invite the audience into a space of belonging and interdependence.

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I am a visual artist originally from California living in my adopted home Edinburgh Scotland. With work in private collections around the USA, Europe and Australia, I also love sharing my love of art through teaching. I have a two year old son and am very inspired by the connection between art making and motherhood, most recently participating in the Artist-In-Residency in Motherhood, and Spilt Milk--a collective of artist-mums. In 2012 I won an Abbey Award Fellowship in Painting at the British School at Rome spending three months in Italy researching the history of the female nude. I subsequently won a year long housing and studio grant from the Roswell Artist in Residence Program, in which I produced a large body of work culminating in a solo exhibit at the Roswell Museum and Art Center. Whatever the subject matter of a painting, ultimately my artistic purpose is to experience the deep flow of creation and to impart that state of presence with the world. I desire to make art that creates more community and connection. Starting with a digital collage process, and creating watercolor studies from the collage, I then make several paintings slowly over many months, where sometimes they are sanded down and reworked taking on various incarnations, or in other cases the piece matures fluidly.

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