KOLUMN Magazine
BURNT SIENNA, A CREATIVE PASSION & THE IDENTITY OF AN ARTIST: CHARISA DENE JACOBS
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Applied brushwork, the effect of technique, scale, pigment, and preferred subjects may engender a sentiment or feeling from the observer, yes, but an artist’ identity is slower to evolve.
An artist, sadly, may enjoy a life of profound creativity, pleasures, trials, and celebrations, yet be denied a broadly recognized identity.
Although their passions, through art, are generally embraced, no immediate and familiar relationship between the artist and hand is apparent.
In Charisa Dene Jacobs’ “Heritage”, “Beloved”, and “Sanctuary” collections, the underlying and grounding effect of burnt sienna is one aspect of the Tulsa, Okla. artist’s identity. Her bold brushwork, apparent connection to subjects and expressive application of color equally inform her mark.
Jacobs’ identity isn’t simply a mark of consistency or recognition. Each work and series, shared Jacobs, is “my own personal journey of identity. A diary of…. how I am navigating through life.”