About Carolyn Jarvis
Carolyn Jarvis at her Balletto Vineyards solo art show, 2019
California ocean and vineyard scenes are often sources of inspiration for Carolyn Jarvis' paintings. 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 recent oil paintings because she likes the freshness, texture and color vibrancy. Her favorite medium in recent years has been oil paint.
Carolyn Jarvis has been painting in watercolor, acrylic and oil for about 25 years. For three years, she studied color, composition and painting techniques with the talented artist, Van Waldron, who had been a student of the famous Russian master oil painter, Sergei Bongart.
Her paintings have been exhibited in Balletto, St. Francis and Chateau Diana wineries in the San Francisco North Bay area. She has also shown her paintings in the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Graton Gallery in Graton and Valley Art Gallery in Walnut Creek, California. Currently her paintings are shown at Artisans’ Co-op Gallery in Bodega and Hand Goods in Occidental, California.
Carolyn has won many awards for her paintings in shows sponsored by the Alamo-Danville Artists’ Society, Valley Art Gallery, Sonoma County Harvest Fairs and Sonoma County Fairs in California.
A digital image of her "Dry Creek" vineyard oil painting was used in a 2018 continuing medical education flier by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Print distribution for the mailing was 10,000. The flier advertised a seminar for doctors that was held in Santa Rosa, close to wine country. To see the flier, visit Carolyn on Instagram at CJarvisArt.
Email Carolyn at cjarvis88@yahoo.com to inquire about buying a painting or to subscribe to her newsletter.
Carolyn Jarvis has been painting in watercolor, acrylic and oil for about 25 years. For three years, she studied color, composition and painting techniques with the talented artist, Van Waldron, who had been a student of the famous Russian master oil painter, Sergei Bongart.
Her paintings have been exhibited in Balletto, St. Francis and Chateau Diana wineries in the San Francisco North Bay area. She has also shown her paintings in the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Graton Gallery in Graton and Valley Art Gallery in Walnut Creek, California. Currently her paintings are shown at Artisans’ Co-op Gallery in Bodega and Hand Goods in Occidental, California.
Carolyn has won many awards for her paintings in shows sponsored by the Alamo-Danville Artists’ Society, Valley Art Gallery, Sonoma County Harvest Fairs and Sonoma County Fairs in California.
A digital image of her "Dry Creek" vineyard oil painting was used in a 2018 continuing medical education flier by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Print distribution for the mailing was 10,000. The flier advertised a seminar for doctors that was held in Santa Rosa, close to wine country. To see the flier, visit Carolyn on Instagram at CJarvisArt.
Email Carolyn at cjarvis88@yahoo.com to inquire about buying a painting or to subscribe to her newsletter.
