Jeffrey Levin

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My medium is oil and use Winsor & Newton colours , exclusively.

I have been at the easel for the past 40 years
I am the resident artist and Chef of MacLevin's Whole Foods Deli
in the amazing pioneer town of Jacksonville, Oregon,  for the past 12  years.

My chosen style rests in the surreal
I employ various construction mediums
creating elevatated images, 3-dimensionally above the surface of the canvas.

Values

As I lift my brush to the canvas, a tad of paint on the tip,
destined to unite with the ever-growing flow of color,
I cannot see the shoulder that's controlling the hand...
I can only observe a surreal event as it plays out before me.
This is the vision I see each day!

Life swirls around & functions on many planes...
Prismatic colors changing hue and intensity...
From pastel to shade and back again...
Reality and concept intermingling...
Images appear, become solid; then translucent...
Moving through and in conjunction with each other...
This is the vision I see each day!

Canvas, a  passageway into a parallel universe,
bursting with visions from behind my eyes...
My gift to you,  the witness...
Perceive the looming images of my imagination...
In many variations of form and color
This is the vision I see each day!


"The Evolution of a Signature"

In the beginning there was the central theme of "Temple of the Rainbow",
a "comet" rushing forward at inter-stellar speed...


 
In "Blue Star" the rainbow "comet" became a small section of its' earlier
self, installed in the lower right of the canvas...









In "Signature" it played out as many drops, from the entry into the canvas in
the upper left corner as a drop seeping drops and continuing  as they
descended into the pool to the "kiss" resting on the rainbow water...
till the pool spills over as a sheet of color, finally breaking off into
drops and disappearing.



In "Castles" the "rainbow comet" returned to the lower right corner.



  In "Cameo" the drop became dew from the rose.



In "At the Seashore" the drop became the fish itself.



In "Creation" the drop represented the "universal sperm" at the left corner of the canvas.