<div><div><div><strong>Jenifer Bacon is an oil painter living and working her studio in Horseshoe Bay, Texas.</strong> She recently moved to the hill country from Colorado to escape the bitter cold winters. She loves the beautiful landscapes, and the wildlife in this magical and inspiring place.</div></div></div>
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<div><div><div>Over the years she has lived in many different places from California, Arizona, New Mexico, and more recently Colorado. She grew up in Laguna Beach, California<strong>,</strong> and lived in a house located high on cliffs overlooking the ocean with stunning views of the land and sea. She had the opportunity to observe many birds of prey and the playful ravens that flew over the cliffs. It greatly influenced her art and thinking. There she started to wonder about the inner lives of animals and birds. She might even have become a scientist except, art was her real passion. But even in this lovely setting she would have traded anyone to live on a ranch riding horses all day and being a cowgirl.</div></div></div>
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<div><div><div>After graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a degree in Studio Art, she traveled throughout Europe experiencing the culture and especially the art. She’s participated in many different painting workshops including Peggy Judy and Rebecca Crowell over the years.</div></div></div>
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<div><div><div>She currently lives in Horseshoe Bay, Texas with her two dogs, and one horse. For fun she rides competes in reined cow horse events and hopes to do herding events with her dog.</div></div></div>
My latest series of paintings are landscapes with animals in the Texas Hill Country but with a twist. I’ve been painting horses and donkeys since 2016 but wanted to go deeper in terms of concept. I started to wonder; how do animals experience the world? What do they see? The reality is every animal on this planet perceives the world in totally different ways from our own. The paintings in Series 1, have been created utilizing a limited palette of blue, yellow and purples to represent how dogs might view the world. Unlike humans, who possess three cones for color perception, dogs have two cones, sensitive to blue and yellow wavelengths. My intent was to create this imaginary world based on the landscape and infuse it with color, mystery, and light. The plan for the next series is to show how prey animals, like horses, cows, experience the world. What is most intriguing about horses is they have eyes on the side of their head and can see almost 360 degrees with blind spots directly in front and back. Next, I intend to paint the songbirds that are in my yard. They see colors we can’t even fathom and we see them not as they really are.
