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HIGH WATER RISING | 30718
HIGH WATER RISING | 30718, 2016
encaustic, ink on paper on panel
21"h x 28"w
$2,200
TELLING V.1 | 30811
TELLING V.1 | 30811, 2017
sumi ink and gold encaustic on xuan paper on panel
54"h x 54"w
$10,000
SILENT BELL II | 30808
SILENT BELL II | 30808, 2017
sumi ink on xuan paper on panel
13.5"h x 33"w
$1,500
SILENT BELL I | 30807
SILENT BELL I | 30807, 2017
sumi ink on xuan paper on panel
13.5"h x 33"w
$1,500
WHAT IS RINGING | 30806
WHAT IS RINGING | 30806, 2017
sumi ink on xuan paper on panel
54"h x 54"w
$12,000
IS AND ISN'T | 30805
IS AND ISN'T | 30805, 2017
sumi ink,colors and gold with encaustic on mulberry paper, on panel
47.5"h x 47.5"w
$9,500
NO LIMIT II | 30720
NO LIMIT II | 30720, 2017
encaustic, ink on paper, on panel
13.5"h x 54"w
$2,500
AQUELLAS ALTURAS (Those Heights) | 30878
AQUELLAS ALTURAS (Those Heights) | 30878, 2011
encaustic, collage and gold leaf on panel
33"h x 66"w
$7,500
TIGER GATE | 21594
TIGER GATE | 21594, 2006
encaustic, ink rubbing, gold leaf, on wood panel, canvas, plaster
49.5"h x 55.5"w
$6,800
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  • HIGH WATER RISING | 30718, 2016
    encaustic, ink on paper on panel
    21"h x 28"w
    $2,200
  • TELLING V.1 | 30811, 2017
    sumi ink and gold encaustic on xuan paper on panel
    54"h x 54"w
    $10,000
  • SILENT BELL II | 30808, 2017
    sumi ink on xuan paper on panel
    13.5"h x 33"w
    $1,500
  • SILENT BELL I | 30807, 2017
    sumi ink on xuan paper on panel
    13.5"h x 33"w
    $1,500
  • WHAT IS RINGING | 30806, 2017
    sumi ink on xuan paper on panel
    54"h x 54"w
    $12,000
  • IS AND ISN’T | 30805, 2017
    sumi ink,colors and gold with encaustic on mulberry paper, on panel
    47.5"h x 47.5"w
    $9,500
  • NO LIMIT II | 30720, 2017
    encaustic, ink on paper, on panel
    13.5"h x 54"w
    $2,500
  • AQUELLAS ALTURAS (Those Heights) | 30878, 2011
    encaustic, collage and gold leaf on panel
    33"h x 66"w
    $7,500
  • TIGER GATE | 21594, 2006
    encaustic, ink rubbing, gold leaf, on wood panel, canvas, plaster
    49.5"h x 55.5"w
    $6,800
JG

About
Jef Gunn

I was born in Seattle when it smelled of rust, cedar and low tide. I moved back to Seattle in 1980 for the rain (really) and because of paintings I had seen at the Francine Seders Gallery (by Guy Anderson, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and others). I didn’t understand them, but when around them my inner life awakened with memories of my boyhood in the region of Puget Sound. I have lived up and down the West Coast and now make my home in Portland.

Legend has it my maternal grandfather was born under the floorboards during an Indian raid in 1890sSaskatchewan.AndGrannyhailedfromScotlandandwasmorethanalittlefey. Mydad’s father was a welder, a Choctaw-Scot from Alabama who worked on bridges and who won the hand of a southern belle in Mississippi. In the 1920s they moved their whole brood of seven to a logging camp near Spirit Lake on Mount St. Helens.

Both my parents had outsized personalities: Dad was an adman/radio man and mom was a charming lass from The Great White North. They met and married in dreamy 1950s Honolulu. I began this life there, and the sounds and smells of the Islands still run through me.

I studied drawing and painting in California through the 1970s, held residencies in Barcelona and Paris in the 1980s, and since the mid 1990s have engaged in a passionate study of Asian art. I began using encaustic in 1985, before there were any books or classes on it. With encaustic, I can bring together all of my other methods: oils, papers and inks, fabric, tar, and gold. My work draws on multiple lineages of art, culture and spiritual meaning.

In September 2006, I curated “Impulse,” a national show of encaustic painting and sculpture at the Portland Art Center. I’ve participated in group exhibits at the Art Gym (Marylhurst University) and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and had a solo show at Oregon State University in 1995. I have taught painting and drawing in Seattle and Portland since the middle 1990s. In 2007, I led a group of artists on a tour of museums, galleries and artist studios in Barcelona. I was nominated for the 2013 Northwest Artist Awards. You can see my paintings at the William Traver Gallery in Seattle, at Cedar Street Galleries in Honolulu, and at Augen Gallery in Portland, Oregon.

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