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Jessica Maring is a self-
Living in Arizona, she came to love the legends of the Native Americans. She painted her interpretations of various creatures such as Coyote using acrylics, in the intense hot colors of the Southwest, and sold her work in a gallery in Sedona.
While searching online one night to learn about the history of the horse in Native American culture, she stumbled across the extraordinary images of horses and other animals painted on the walls of caves, about 17,000 years ago, near what is Lascaux, France today, and her love affair with yet another era of antiquity began, resulting in the “Ice Age Animals” collection.
On returning to California (where she was born and raised), Jessica’s style and subject matter also changed. Her current collection, “California Coastal Landscapes”, presents scenes of coastal California in oils, rendered realistically in the broader palette of California’s thousand hues of green, the subtle shades of rain and fog, and the shadows of lingering twilight. She paints from her own photos, most of which are taken near her home in the Santa Cruz mountains. Since returning to California Jessica has shown her work at various art & wine festivals, exhibitions, and Santa Cruz County’s annual Open Studios Art Tour.
“I love beauty, and to me, nothing is more beautiful than the natural world. I often
wish I could convey the whole experience of a place in a painting-
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