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“Art is in my heart and soul; it is something I will always do, so making a living out of it that is just a bonus.” says artist Jenny Campbell
As a young child she recalls her creative mother who helped develop her artistic vision. “I’ve been creating since I was old enough to hold a crayon. I never had any artistic training, more importantly in my development, I was never discouraged from attempting anything, ” she says.
Campbell defines herself as Photorealistic. Her varied works includes scenic areas of Baltimore made into screen paintings. Screen paintings are a traditional Baltimore art form that she helps keeps alive and well. Jenny states on her Facebook page, “The folk art spread to many door & windows in the area but remained, as it still is today, concentrated to the East Baltimore neighborhoods of Highlandtown, Canton & Fells Point.” Realism is an important feature of her work.. As is shown by one of her screen paintings titled Crabs. Campbell’s website states this piece was done for a food festival held here in two restaurants in Baltimore city, in the historic Mount Vernon area. While she is not currently known for making surreal art, in the future she intends to explore through her own work a writer she much admires; Lewis Carroll; creator of Alice in Wonderland.
Jenny says says she takes her time to let the creative juices flow. She works late at night when she can concentrate better. This fits the feel of the sensual show girls she likes to paint.
Campbell draws inspiration from the female body. She produces burlesque art that would make a thirteen year old boy melt on the spot but is not too graphic. She loves Art Nuevo and Japanese style art—this is evident in her work.
Campbell is not only an artist, connoisseur, and enthusiast but someone young Baltimore artists should admire. She says, “Inspiration is around you every second of the day. Maybe what inspires me is, “hey do I want to see this again?” If I do, I’ll photograph it or paint it. I look to the sky, I look on the ground, and I try to see things out of the normal eye level sight of what you see daily… I’ve been told I have a good “eye. That’s something I don’t think you can learn, either it comes to you naturally or you just don’t have it.” You don’t need a good eye to recognized good art, but Jenny has matured into a great appreciator of all the possibilities and manifestations of art through her own development.
To see more of Ms. Cambells work and to contact the artist visit her website at:
http://jennycampbellonline.blogspot.com/
Tags: Baltimore, Blaze Star, Gary Waddell, Jenny Campbell, Painting, screen painting, visual art
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