<div><div><div><strong>Jenifer Bacon is an oil painter living in Horseshoe Bay, Texas.</strong> She recently moved to the Texas Hill Country from Colorado. She was happy to leave her snow shovel and bitter cold winters behind. Over the years she has lived in many different places; California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. She’s found the rolling hills, oak trees and the warm nights in the hill country very inspiring to her work.</div></div>
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<div><div>She grew up in Laguna Beach, California, living in a home overlooking the ocean with stunning views of the land and sea that had the perfect name “Top of the World”. She had the opportunity to observe birds of prey and ravens that soared over the cliffs. It greatly influenced her art and thinking. 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>
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<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 the art. Eventually, she ended up working for many years as a digital artist specializing in technology startups.</div></div>
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<div><div>She currently lives in Horseshoe Bay, Texas with her dog, a cat and a horse. For fun she rides and competes in reined cow horse events and enjoys hiking 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.
