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| It's the fuel that I run on, especially when I'm worn out from so much traveling and change." .....Even though he left a painting with each family he visited, Mott returned from his first tour with 130 works, many of which were featured in a February 2001 exhibition at the Taylor Gallery, part of the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire. The paintings made during his cross-country trip, as well as the more than 100 pieces from three subsequent New England tours, are also displayed on his Web site, www.jimmott.com. |
....Recently, he has been able to do a few commissioned works as part of the project, a trend he hopes to cultivate. "It gets away from pure gift exchange," he says, "but it helps cover expenses." .....Be it in person, through his Web site, or in exhibition, Mott's art is finding its way to an ever-increasing audience. As an artist, he wants to continue to interact with people's lives in a manner that highlights the importance of art. His landscape paintings connect with people, and his hosts were happy that he "documented their life in some way," the artist explains. |
.....Mott is concerned with more than documentation in his art, however. "It seems we can understand ourselves or find our inner experience articulated through the language of the landscape," he remarks, "and in that connection, recognize something within both the landscape and the self that is deeper and bigger than either." Alan Singer is an artist, writer, and educator; an associate professor of fine art at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. His book, Wildlife Art, was published by Rockport Publishers in 1999. He is a past president of the Print Club of Rochester. |
