Interview with Jana feverston

Jana Feverston: Fine Artist at DAAP
http://myworldofart-jana.blogspot.com/

I had the opportunity to interview Jana Feverston, a fellow artist in her junior year in the Fine Arts program at DAAP. Like myself, Feverston is following a career path with the goal of attending graduate school for art therapy. Her and I have crossed paths several times since our freshman year but have had minimal interaction; that is until recently. We both discovered our salient similarities in our life goals and personality traits and decided we are destined to become friends. And so our relationship begins…

Below is the interview.











1. What is your choice medium?

I used to work with mixed media such as pen, India ink, pastel, watercolor, oil paint, acrylic and currently I mainly work strictly with oil paint with some smaller mixed media projects. I work with many different materials, such as with my oil paints I may use wax which dulls the pigments or galkalyd which blends the paints while using thin layers of pigment that causes it to appear transparent.



2. How would you describe your work?

My work deals a lot with multiple aspects of the senses; I am very interested in texture in how something feels and the visual it creates. I also use my art as a way to physically express my momentary emotional standpoint and how I feel while creating the work. I greatly embrace the feeling involved in my mark making techniques whether they be intentional or unintentional, every mark has a purpose and meaning in my art.



3. Where do you draw your inspiration from?

I draw my inspiration from many artists such as Mark Schwartz, Shannon Campanaro, Gary Petersen, and Elizabeth Gilfilen. Organic images and textures which are derived from nature. I also incorporate some manmade creations.



4. Where do you most enjoy doing your work?

I mainly enjoy working within the studio and at home sitting at the kitchen table. When it is really nice outside I love throwing a blanket on the ground and basking in the sunlight which is a therapeutic process of working. Mostly, I enjoy making art anywhere I can make a home.










Here are some images of her artwork:

Flower No. 2, 2011, oil paint on canvas, 30" x 24"

Red Elephant, 2011, mixed media on water color paper, 13.5" x 10.5"

Carnival Shoe, 2011, mixed media on water color paper, 24" x 17"