Forest Bedroom Mural in blue, green and red featuring PNW forests, wildlife, maples, oaks, pines, firs and wildflowers.
Commissioned for Eugene Public Library, this is a playable public art piece for musicians to enjoy downtown. The design I painted on the surface of this Spinet piano features native plants of Indian paintbrush, maidenhair fern and lupine in vibrant colors. Abstracted book pages stand behind the plants in gold and blue, while accents of the original wood are throughout the piano.
Illinois Valley Children’s Library
This reading tree sculpture collaboration between Lucas Brinkerhoff and I lives in the Illinois Valley children’s library.
These steel pieces from the reading tree were a whole new world of creating designs to then cut them out with a plasma cutter and grinder. The final step was banging away at them with hammers in a vice to bring out their curvature. I missed paintbrushes for just a minute.
Hand plasma cut and CNC plasma cut Steel and Copper
with Fir and Plywood
The Gordon Hotel requested a mural design for the facade of their art hotel downtown. This piece features my favorite Oregonian flower from childhood, the Indian Paintbrush, or Castilleja.
Growing up in Oregon, several teachers taught me reverence for our landscape and I use art to return the favor to the next generations. Identifying and painting the native plants of my home state is a lifelong project. Indian Paintbrush, a favorite native plants in Oregon, is featured in this design alongside a companion plant Balsamroot Arrowleaf. The piece is meant to show a metaphorical hand presenting this gift from the land as a metaphor for times right now when flowers still bloom.
Commission for City of Medford. Mural and Ceramic Installation located in Hawthorne Park Viaduct pillars under Interstate-5.
My team was commissioned to help revitalize this park's reputation from an unsafe and underused space into a vibrant welcoming public greenspace in downtown Medford. Today Hawthorne Park hosts music events, farmer's markets, dog parks and playgrounds.
Six pillars are painted with the Rogue Valley's landscapes, with each design featuring a native species in their habitat.
With the support of the Wildlife Images Center, we collected the stories and research of many characters including the Western pond turtle, blue heron, trout, salmon, rattlesnake, swallowtail butterfly, pollinators, insects, black bear and cougar.
As a local to Southern Oregon, this wildlife mural has been an experience of restoring reputation and relationship with the park as a vibrant space. It has also been an experience of portraying species that we humans fear or don't connect with. Our hope is that these images can help create a new relationship of respect and curiosity with the black bear, cougar, rattlesnake and others while continuing to honor and revitalize populations such as the salmon and honeybee.
See more progress images of this project at instagram.com/jessbrinkart.
Collaboration with Ecomurals and support by Lucas Brinkerhoff.
Coffee Plant Roaster asked me to enliven these blue bathroom walls with coffee plants!
Visit them for fresh ground coffee and their fantastic food menu all made in house.
It all begins with an idea.
Botanical Mandala Mural in copper, blue, green and red to compliment the space.
Additional bedroom mandala in blue.