Bath County Backroads
William Jameson
Thunder Ridge Road, 30” x 30”, oil on canvas
William Jameson
Bath County Backroads
12 Katydid Trail I Warm Springs, Virginia 22902 540.839-2985 I www.warmspringsgallery.com
Red, Red Maples, 10” x 10”, oil on panel
William Jameson Born in 1944 in Honea Path, South Carolina, William Jameson has always felt strong ties to his native region. Bill credits growing up surrounded by the natural beauty and rich history of South Carolina with inspiring his childhood ambitions of becoming an artist. After studying with Frank Rampola at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Florida, Jameson continued his studies while teaching landscape painting and life drawing as a graduate assistant at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Bill has drawn inspiration from a wide array of bodies of work, ranging from the drypoint etchings of American landscape artist Chauncey Foster Ryder to the Renaissance masterpieces of Titian. Bill’s passion for history and nature allow him to create introspective landscapes embodying the full range of local color and timeless contrasts. He rejects the term “scene” in reference to his works; rather, he defines his landscapes as “explorations.” This approach to his subject matter enables Bill to create compositions that go beyond mere depictions of the surface beauty offered by the landscape. Jameson explores his subject matter in detail, and in the process reveals the mystery and profound power of nature. The effect is literal and sentimental interpretation of nature. Each painting is a reflection of the dual relationship between man and nature, painter and observer. “Ideally, I am inclined to think about the landscape without the intrusion of man and his continual need to build something, to tear up and rearrange the earth. On the other hand, its man’s presence that sometimes provides the provoking subject. My love for the natural landscape of the South is inherited culturally and geographically. I love the land for its history, its harshness and its beauty.”
First Snow on Cheerokee Ridge, 30” x 40”, oil on canvas
Early Fall Cascades, 30” x 24”, oil on canvas
Misty Morning Reflections, 24” x 18”, oil on linen
Bath County, Back Road Series II, 24” x 30”, oil on canvas
February on the Appalachian Trail I, 16” x 16”, oil on panel
Bath County Back Road Series I, 16” x 20”, oil on canvas
Bath County, Back Roads Series III, 24” x 30”, oil on canvas
Appalachian Textures XVIII, 40” x 30”, oil on linen
Appalachian Textures XIX, 40” x 30”, oil on linen
Blue Ridge Pass, 27” x 40”, oil on linen
Winter Field Study I, 12” x 12”, oil on panel
Out of the Tunnel, Appalaichan Trail, 12” x 12”, oil on panel
Summer on the Jackson River, 16” x 20”, oil on linen
12 Katydid Trail I Warm Springs, Virginia 22902 540.839-2985 I www.warmspringsgallery.com