Caroline Jasper

Colorist. Impressionistic artist who begins each painting on a solid bright red canvas. Workshop instructor. Author of art instruction books and DVDs.
Using the language of color, my paintings focus on light and its intrinsic meaning. Colors express my emotional response to a moment when sunlight’s enriching presence caught my eye. I exaggerate color differences and hue saturation to communicate the intensity of recalled visual experience. Each work starts on a color ground, the axis for impact dynamics. My paintings have more to do with expressive interpretation than with actual subject. At close range of the canvas subjects lose identity. Brushstrokes, denoting separate abstract color blocks, juxtapose bits of unpainted red ground generating both literal and psychological optical effects. Light is always my motivation. I prefer early mornings or late afternoons when the sun is low and shadows long. Subjects are always real places. Yet, reality of feeling while in the place is more important than location depiction. Through painting I return to an inspiring sight, experienced in solitude, recreated on canvas to be shared.
Member: Oil Painters of America

MFA Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2017 Juried Plein Air Gallery Exhibition, The Rice Gallery of Fine Art, Overland park, KS

2017 3rd Place, Plein Fun Fest, Delray Beach, FL .Juried Plein Air

2016 Judges Choice Award. Salon Exhibition. The Gallery At Roundtop, TX

2016 Juried Plein Air Gallery Exhibition, The Rice Gallery of Fine Art, Overland park, KS

2014 Best of the Best Invitational, UBS Wealth Management, Stuart, FL

2013 Artistic Minds & Wine, Benefit Venice Area Historical Society,Train Depot, Venice, FL

2012 Artists Changing Tomorrow International Exhibition Sterling McCall Event Center, Round Top, TX

2012 Museum Art School Reunion Exhibition: Creating, Inspiring & Educating for 80 Years, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD,

2011 The Power of Color, The Gallery at Round Top, Round Top, TX,

2010 First Annual Florida Juried Exhibition, Florida Museum for Women Artists, Deland, FL