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KOBO Gallery at Higo
Japantown/International District
Where & When
604 South Jackson Street
Seattle, Washington 98104
(206)381-3000
June 3- July 11, 2010
Jon Janosik
Birds in Nature
Opening reception:
First Thursday, June 3, 6 - 8pm
 There will be a Gallery Talk with the artist from
6 - 6:30pm,with a book signing and reception to follow.
Living
with his grandparents on their Trumbull farm in his formative years, Jon
Janosik became enchanted with wild birds, nature and Biology. He attended Oberlin College as a Zoology Major and
began his professional career as illustrator preparing the ink drawings
from specimens for his professor. He returned to New Haven after
college, and took a position at the Yale University Peabody Museum as
assistant illustrator and began to paint seriously in his leisure hours.
Since then, his work has been featured in books and
numerous galleries and museums, including
Smithsonian(Washington, D.C.), The Carnegie Museum,(Pittsburgh, PA), the
British Museum(London, England), The Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh,
Scotland), and the Kobe Museum ( Sanda, Japan).
Having traveled
worldwide to study birds, Janosik now devotes most of his time to
painting commissions from international collectors at his home in the
Willamette Valley region in Oregon.
"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate sensations of birds in nature."
 "I have tried to
present my impressions in what is the most congenial and expressive form
achievable from me. I have elected to study birds with brush and
paint, attempting to force this often-unwilling medium of paint and
ground, to record them. I recall two strong feelings since my childhood: a bond between birds and myself and desire for self-expression with my hands.
These have never ceased to be united within my evolving vision and lifework as a painter of birds. Although my subject matter may appear to be strictly birds, I am as much influenced by the landscape as I am by the creature, the goal being for me is to effectively blend the two. All my inspiration for painting is derived directly from nature, and it is to nature that I always return when least inspired." Jon Janosik
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 Jon Janosik is one of two Illustrators of the "Backyard Songbird Guide" series - a comprehensive listening Guide to Eastern and Western North American birds with full page color illustrations. For the first time, the original paintings in watercolor from the book will be exhibited. There will also be a book signing and gallery talk by the artist.
The book is a Cornell Lab of Ornithology Audio Field Guide A Guide to Listening by Donald Kroodsma. |
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Ikebana class by Megumi Schacher
Saturday, June 5, 1-3pm
Arranging for the Northwest summer.
$30/session, includes flowers and plants materials
Advanced registration required.Sign up as soon as possible. Classes fill up on a
first-come, first-served basis. Students will be registered upon receipt of
full payment. Checks should be made out to Megumi Schacher. Spots are still available.
To register please call (206) 381-3000 or email us. |
