Jacquilyn Berry
Raised in Germany, Jacquilyn had a childhood surrounded by the artistic masters of Europe. Whether it was visiting The Louvre, The Sistine Chapel, or too many cathedrals and palaces to count, art was a dominate presence in her life. She began painting in high school copying the Impressionistic Greats. Accepted into the VCU School of Arts with honors she switched her major to Art History and finished with a Masters’ Degree in 19th Century French Impressionism. She has been a contracted gallery artist at The Bella-Arte Fine Art Gallery in Midlothian, Virginia. While at The Bella-Arte Gallery, she had two solo shows and participated in five group shows.
Throughout her adult life she continued to paint landscapes evolving her own artists hand and unique representation of the natural world around her. As brush and imagination slowly merged over time her artwork seeks to delve into the subconscious of the viewer. Her landscapes and abstracts provide a gateway for the viewer to delve and freely roam into their own subconscious feelings, memories, dreams and aspirations. When asked about her goals as an artist she is quick to reference her favorite quote by Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, “too much sanity may be madness. and maddest of all, is to see life as it is and not as it should be.” Jacquilyn captures and manifests the ephemeral whisps of hope, dreams, wishes, and light that reside in all of us. We should all see the world as it should be.
Artist Statement:
Jacquilyn focuses mainly on distant landscapes and wants those viewing her landscapes to feel a sense of peaceful calm and serenity. She feels in todays world we all need that more than ever.
“These landscapes are gateways for the viewer to have a truly unique and personal journey thru them. Just enough detail is put in for the viewer to understand the composition and enough detail is left out so that the viewer’s subconscious can plant its own details into the landscape. In this way, the canvas becomes a portal for the viewers imagination to saunter thru fond childhood memories, favorite pieces of literature, find a place of solitude for inward self-reflection, and have a moment of reprieve from the outside world.”
