Jamie Brunson’s paintings are not only beautiful; they encompass elements of healing, as well.  Brunson’s compositions are based on color and form that appear to her during her meditation practice.

Jamie Brunson’s work translates visual and sensory experiences during meditation practice in formal terms. Since moving to Northern New Mexico, Brunson has been increasingly influenced by elements in the environment: the dramatic effects of atmospheric phenomena, the vast scale of the sky and the land with it’s dominant horizon line, and the historic architecture that marks the region. These influences are expressed in her work as saturated color, rhythmic intervals, geometric divisions, and tactile surface treatment.

Brunson uses process, improvisation and the physical qualities of her mediums to render perceptions in formal abstraction. These medium materials include oil paint, alkyd medium and refined beeswax on polyester canvas stretched over panel, and, in the collages, vintage found paper.

Brunson’s paintings are process-based, layering bands of color into colored grounds and working wet into wet to add and subtract until she reaches compositions that evoke both internal states and the external landscape and shifting atmosphere. For Brunson, her work is an exercise in staying present in the unfolding moment, apprehending the world through unmediated senses and working collaboratively with the inherent properties of materials.