Curtis Jaunsen

”When I paint I concentrate on the pure visual impression of the thing in front of me.  I try to find the beauty of light and atmosphere.  I want my paintings to be truthful renderings of nature but also to resonate with feeling.

My paintings involve hours of careful, intense observation.  That is the chief joy of this kind of painting, that I can put aside the many distractions of a normal day and focus all of attention on what I find beautiful”. 

Curtis Stewart Jaunsen grew up in Atlanta, Georgia.  He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was awarded both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Architecture. In 2002, after a decade working as an architect, Curtis decided to concentrate on his true passion, fine art painting.  Curtis moved with his wife and two young children to Florence, Italy where he spent the next two years studying at the academic atelier-styled Florence Academy of Art.  Inspired by the beauty found in nature, Curtis now works on still lifes, portraits, and landscapes at his studio in Mississippi.

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