Jamie Wyeth
Jamie Wyeth
JamesBrowning Wyethis a contemporary American realist painter, son of Andrew Wyeth, and grandson of N.C. Wyeth. He was raised in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, and is artistic heir to the Brandywine School tradition, painters who worked in the rural Brandywine River area of Delaware and Pennsylvania, portraying its people, animals, and landscape...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth6 July 1946
CountryUnited States of America
feelings looks portraiture
When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.
let-it-go want way
Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way.
growing house loved solitary studio
Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my grandfather's studio just up the hill. It was a solitary childhood, but I loved it.
intrigue islands
I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm.
painted rags union
I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.
learned longtime music pigs soothing
I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.
aunt earliest eat egg studio walk
From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera.
totally
Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
fantastic god wake
I'm a very strange painter. I don't wake up one day and say, 'God, isn't this a fantastic day, I'd better get out and paint!' I think my father's more that way, because he's very fast.
continued critics last life paint until
I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.
painter profession stand
Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
animals familiar mostly paint paintings series
I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.
brushes lived natural pencils
We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.
huge sought warhol
Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.