About Carolyn Jarvis
Carolyn Jarvis
Sebastopol-based painter, Carolyn Jarvis, is best known for seascape paintings. Local Sonoma County, CA landscapes, especially vineyards and barns, are also a common theme and provide inspiration. Occasionally she paints still life. Her favorite medium is oil paint but sometimes paints large paintings with acrylic.
She is captivated by the process and challenge of creating colorful, spontaneous paintings that attempt to capture the light. She has been using a palette knife instead of brushes in some of her recent oil paintings because she likes the freshness, texture and color vibrancy.
For three years, Carolyn studied color, composition and painting techniques with Van Waldron, an artist who had been a student of the famous Russian master oil painter, Sergei Bongart.
Since 2015, her paintings have been shown at Artisans’ Co-op Gallery in Bodega, CA. She has exhibited oil paintings in Balletto, St. Francis and Chateau Diana wineries in Sonoma County, CA. In addition, she has exhibited in the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Graton Gallery and Valley Art Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA. Carolyn moved from Walnut Creek to Sebastopol in 2011. She won several awards for her paintings in shows sponsored by the Alamo-Danville Artists’ Society and Valley Art Gallery in Walnut Creek.
An image of her "Dry Creek" vineyard oil painting was used in a 2018 continuing medical education announcement flier by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Print distribution for the mailing was 10,000 and advertised a seminar for doctors that was held in Santa Rosa, CA.
To contact Carolyn and for additional information, visit her website at www.carolynjarvisartist.com.
She is captivated by the process and challenge of creating colorful, spontaneous paintings that attempt to capture the light. She has been using a palette knife instead of brushes in some of her recent oil paintings because she likes the freshness, texture and color vibrancy.
For three years, Carolyn studied color, composition and painting techniques with Van Waldron, an artist who had been a student of the famous Russian master oil painter, Sergei Bongart.
Since 2015, her paintings have been shown at Artisans’ Co-op Gallery in Bodega, CA. She has exhibited oil paintings in Balletto, St. Francis and Chateau Diana wineries in Sonoma County, CA. In addition, she has exhibited in the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Graton Gallery and Valley Art Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA. Carolyn moved from Walnut Creek to Sebastopol in 2011. She won several awards for her paintings in shows sponsored by the Alamo-Danville Artists’ Society and Valley Art Gallery in Walnut Creek.
An image of her "Dry Creek" vineyard oil painting was used in a 2018 continuing medical education announcement flier by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Print distribution for the mailing was 10,000 and advertised a seminar for doctors that was held in Santa Rosa, CA.
To contact Carolyn and for additional information, visit her website at www.carolynjarvisartist.com.
