mastered her medium of watercolor - concerned only with beauty, fantasy and the spirit of the natural world. No angst, personal agendas, or flailing against the heavens, Jubb is content to focus her prodigious gifts on creating lush, romantic, fanciful still-lifes of tigers, orchids, bears, housecats, summer and tropical bouquets, iguanas, jungle birds in ways that few watercolorists can even imitate.
Oh, and yes, her works are in Museum collections, corporate headquarters, and private collections in Asia and the Americas. And this always freshartist has provided illustrations for image
driven children's books and has been featured in arts magazines, often to share her technical prowess with colleagues and students. Jubb has frequent exhibitions in Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Washington, Oregon. California and Hawaii. She also exhibits in her home state, Montana, where she is never far from the bounty of natural beauty she celebrates.
Grady Harp • Lizardi/Harp Gallery
Kendahl Jan Jubb was raised in Altadena, California and St. Louis, Missouri, where she received art instruction at an early age from Victor Harles. She continued her education at the University of Montana in Missoula where she now resides.
Kendahl Jan Jubb is in tune with Nature. Whether composing myriad flowers in gardens or containers, or conjuring magical scenes of animals wild and domesticated, Jubb celebrates color and forms as intricate as cloisonné treasures for the East. Her pigments are rich and frequently opaque, setting off delicately hued still-lifes with dramatic black, anchoring color-fields. Painting for the last twenty years, while the art scene chaotically fragmented into more and more obtuse schools of attempting to objectify observation, she has quietly