Jai Cochran
STUDIO 202
About
I am a painter, photographer and writer residing in Fort Collins, but I’ve lived in Georgia, Texas and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. As a landscape architect in San Antonio, I designed the grounds of the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi. While living in Mexico I photographed and produced the travelogue “A Video Postcard from San Miguel de Allende”, as well as giving public photography lectures. My novel Speak the Truth and Fear No Man is available on Amazon’s Kindle.
Artist Statement
A friend told me he liked my paintings because they were of places where he’d like to be — beautiful, mysterious, but real places, landscapes where natural forces have uniquely converged.
I use color to express the personality of those places. Like music, color is vibration, the melody that floats above the rhythm of the forms. And I don’t try to flatten those forms. My paintings are meant to shift perception, to pop off the canvas, or else drop back and draw the viewer in.
I paint from my own digital photographs, exploiting that medium to capture the light of the moment, and to create detail, which is the hallmark of my art.
Artwork
Ranch Gate
Above Jenny Lake
Beyond Flat Creek
Cowgirl Wedding
Refuge Hill
Return of Buffalo
September Colors, Palo Duro Canyon
Green Hills of Montana
Vedauwoo Aspen Skirt
Original works and merchandise available from my studio. In-person visits and purchases welcome!
Contact
Jai Cochran
Studio 202
Email
3 Square Art
2415 Donella Ct, Ste 110
Attn: Studio 202
Fort Collins, CO 80524