Jamie Lindholm

For more than three decades, my approach to painting was to represent a life in a portrait. I didn't want to convey just the subject's likeness, but incorporate their style, personality, surroundings, and energy if I could. For the most part, these concepts were represented by pose, color, lighting, and objects included in the painting -- typical of most representational portrait work. In the process of getting my MFA, I explored a more conceptual process, and it completely changed the way I approach painting. That is what you see today.