This digital discussion is with artist JR Rapier.

JR Rapier is from Austin, Texas and is a new Maryland resident. She naturally gravitated to drawing and painting as a child. Gradually through her life she grew more incumbent with her talent as a painter. JR vividly illustrates the power of spirituality through a poetic style of her own. She explores the human condition, inner child fantasies, and landscape themes by capturing the innate beauty through magnifying light, color, and structure. For as long as she can remember, JR has been enamored with the alluring landscapes in both coastal and arid regions. Nature inspires JR with an energetic sacred voice that speaks through her work. Her work has evolved into figurative work, both surreal and realistic.

She explores human conditions with evoking emotion. Her work has transformed from capturing her exterior world around her to expressing her personal interior world with conviction. Most recently, her East Coast journey has inspired her to explore what she describes as “abstract skyscrapes”; dramatic storm clouds and sunsets. JR’s earliest inspiration comes from Georgia O’Keefe. She is also inspired by the works of Hieronymus Bosch, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Henri de Toulouse-Lantrec. Currently her work is represented in Austin, Texas by Wonderwall Studios, Four Hands Company. In New Mexico, she is represented by Alhambra Art Gallery in Taos and Keep Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe. She works on commission with corporate art curators around the country and is commissioning work for her private clients. JR has been celebrated in national juried competitions, and in international art fairs around the world.

My art as a whole represents a spiritual transformation and a lifelong process of self-evolution. I feel it gets richer as my artistic journey unfolds to tell my stories. I work in a dimension between realism and surrealism both with landscape and my figures. I am constantly exploring new ideas in my work, with dream-like settings and the human figure by subtly weaving in obscure symbolism that I want others to discover for themselves. These ideas want to manifest, as if entities themselves. As a conduit of my higher self, I find that my intuition and inner guidance are radically accurate expressions of what the future holds. My stories are vulnerable, thought provoking, intimate and curious states of mind that pull color and light into a reality of its own with oil and canvas. Sharing my own human experiences through my work continues to fulfill my journey and purpose as an artist.

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