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By Barbara Sherwood
Rappahannock News Writer
June Jordan and Sally Nash are sharing the space at the Packing Shed Gallery in a show entitled “Do Oil and Water Mix?”
June’s medium is oil paint and Sally has been working in watercolor. While being very different in approach and expression, the work of these two artists hangs well together. The show presents itself as a whole due to their shared sensibility for color and structure.
Oil and Water: all of our impressions of these two substances come to mind. Weighty/fluid-opaque/transparent-heavy/light. Each can also take on some of the qualities of the other. Sally lets her paint lay heavy and opaque when necessary and June’s oils can be quite fluid and transparent in her works on paper. How much does the medium determine the final expression of the completed work?
June Jordan knows the strength embodied in the straight line. She uses it wisely to retain pictorial structure and integrity when working from the figure. Working from the figure and from life, June has specific problems presented to her. How much detail can one include before it weakens the whole? Or how does one include it as part of the whole? How can one keep the responsive eye open when the artist moves from the more direct painting-on-paper to the canvas, where the painting is developed over a longer period of time?
June continues to emphasize shape in relation to the whole as well as the movement of the brush. Most often she forgoes description for its own sake. Perhaps the most sue
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