Jim Wainscott
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Over forty years ago while in my twenties and in art school, my approach to art began to take direction. The form it took then, and into graduate school, was to the greater part, a sort of hard-edged quasi abstract painting which gave way as I finished grad school and beyond, to highly rendered colored pencil works on textured boards.

In the early eighties I reintroduced myself to painting – making mostly small scale multi-layered paintings on wood panels. This has directly led to my current and what I believe to be my signature concerns.

Throughout these decades I have shown extensively in both private commercial and public venues in various parts of the country, including numerous featured solo exhibitions in such cities as Cincinnati, Dayton, Louisville, Lexington, Seattle, Chicago, and Los Angeles. I have lived and worked in Cincinnati, Ohio since 1980.

As one of my works develops outward from the initial sketches on the primed wood surface to the final resolution, intermittent layers of clear polymer are applied to separate one phase of development from the previous phase. This gives the completed piece a smooth deeply transparent surface.

Painting is the medium through which I see. As the image I am working with clarifies, my seeing clarifies. The painting is the story. If a viewer is drawn to one of my paintings the story grows. All I have to say about the work is in the work.