paintings by Jag

                                                                                                                                             View from Lake Champlain

paintings by Jag

Jesse Gestal, the founder of paintings by Jag, has been inspired to paint from an early age. While specializing in landscapes, she likes to experiment with different subjects and mediums. Jesse has been inspired by her father’s mother, Isabelle Gestal Rice, whose painting name is Lyle and taught her to always use a “bit of red” in each of her paintings, a technique she has continued to value. 

Jesse began to focus on painting as her primary artistic outlet at the University of Vermont , where she graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Studio Art in 2001. Currently living in San Francisco, she has shown her work at the The Green in Burlington, VT and at Chameleon Café on Russian Hill, San Francisco.  Jesse is continuously inspired by her surroundings: North Lake Tahoe, the northern California beaches and her travels.  While her early series concentrates on abstraction and landscape, she draws inspiration from Japanese art and renowned American artists such as Wayne Theibaud.

Recently, she has combined her abstraction and love of maps to a different level by re-creating San Francisco neighborhoods. She re creates the city, with the use of maps, electronics and found objects.

With a long list of diverse jobs, she has finally found her niche working as a Regional Manager at Play-Well, www.play-well.org managing, networking and educating children about Engineering with Lego’s.  She is in the middle of planning lesson plans around her passion: Green Art.  In due course, she would like to travel overseas, to aid women to facilitate a trade which would allow them to provide for themselves, as well as their families. 

She looks forward to depicting stories about her experiences in her paintings and collages.

 

                       

                      Water's edge

                                      36 by 36 inches