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"Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." — John Muir

Artist Statement

My lyrical, abstracted paintings—ranging from intimate to monumental in scale—arise from a profound, lived connection with and appreciation for the natural world. Light, movement, landscape, trees, flora, and atmosphere are not depicted as subjects, but experienced as portals into nature’s vital essence. They become manifestations of an elemental energy that pulses through the visible world. Through sensuous color, fluid gesture, and serpentine rhythm, edges dissolve and forms remain in constant motion, allowing the paintings themselves to breathe, shimmer, and vibrate.

My work is informed by a lifelong immersion in Eastern mysticism and meditation, as well as a decade-long apprenticeship in Mesoamerican shamanic practice that opened expansive inner landscapes. Jungian dreamwork—understanding dream imagery and archetypes as expressions of the collective unconscious—along with extensive international travel, has further shaped and enriched my visual language. Painting is my way of giving form to the healing intelligence of nature. Each work seeks to reveal the primordial energy at nature’s core—an ever-present, animate force invites the viewer into a deeper, more expansive experience of being. Like the Romantic Transcendentalists, I believe in the fundamental unity of nature and mind, and in nature’s enduring power as a source of transformation and healing.

Bio

Linda Jacobson creates nature-based paintings of landscape in acrylic and oil. She explores landscape as abstraction by simplifying the image into basic shape, color and form. She is based in Venice, California and has BFA degrees in Fine Art from both Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA and California State University, Northridge and studied painting at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles. Jacobson has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Jarrow & Goodman, Baldwin Avenue Gallery, MRG Fine Art, George Lawson Gallery, Karpeles Manuscript Library, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Gallery K, Galerie Rohling, Galerie Marquet, and Caldera Gallery.

Her work is held in public & corporate collections including the Palm Springs Art Museum, University of Michigan, MGM Studios, Queens Medical Center in Hawaii. Private collections include James & Linda Ries, Burt Lancaster, Diana Zlotnick, Billy Crystal, Fred Segal, Don Miguel Ruiz, Jean & Lewis Wolff.

Jacobson was an Artist-in-Residence at the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony.  An established educator, she created and taught the groundbreaking course Art & Transformation at UCLA Extension, earning Instructor of the Year and a national nomination for “Most Innovative College Course.” She also taught at Art Center College of Design, UCLA Extension, and Otis College of Art and Design.  Jacobson leads transformative art workshops and holds private classes in creativity and painting in Los Angeles and abroad.

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