Where the Wild
and Sacred Meet
Original paintings born from ten years of learning to listen to paint — animals, myths, and living things emerging from chaos, one canvas at a time.
Three works from the collection
A technique that
cannot be repeated
Each painting begins with a pour — fluid acrylics tilted and collided on canvas, creating backgrounds that can never be exactly reproduced. Temperature, humidity, the angle of Jay's hand — all of it changes what happens.
Then, from that chaos, a subject emerges. An animal. A skull. A flower. The figurative element is added last, responding to what the pour has already become.
“Beyond the horizon the cosmos opens. Nebulae of pigment catch light like distant stars, and a single brushstroke holds both a lifetime and a night sky. This is why I paint.”
I am Jay.
A decade ago, my wife gave me a Bob Ross paint kit. I had never really painted before.
What started as a birthday gift became an obsession. I found a way of working — layering fluid acrylics, letting them move and collide, then calling something forth from the chaos — that felt like finding a language I had always known but never spoken.
Lions. Tigers. Flowers. Skulls. Horses dissolving into particles mid-run. The subjects choose themselves. I follow where the paint leads.
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New works as they're finished, glimpses of the process, and occasional thoughts on paint and the subjects that arrive. No noise.