Raised in the Midwest after spending her early childhood in
Southern California, Kendahl Jan Jubb studied from an early age with noted
St. Louis impressionist, Victor Harles. She moved to Montana in 1978 to
major in Forestry and quickly changed to Art during her first year at the
University of Montana. Her first public showing was a one-person show at the
University in 1980 and was met with resounding acclaim! Kendahl travels
extensively throughout the United States and India, sketching and painting
in the environment that inspires her.
Kendahl’s work has appeared in over thirty galleries from Mexico to
the Virgin Islands, and commissions have come from such corporations as the
Bonneville Power Administration, The Peabody Hotel, The Four Seasons Hotel
in Singapore and the Holland America Line.
Kendahl Jan Jubb is in tune with Nature. Whether composing myriad
flowers in gardens or containers, or conjuring magical scenes of animals,
wild and domesticated, Jubb celebrates color and forms as intricate as
cloisonné treasures for the East. Her pigments are rich and frequently
opaque, setting off delicately hued still lifes with dramatic black,
anchoring color fields. Painting for the last twenty years, while the art
scene chaotically fragmented into more and more obtuse schools of attempting
to objectify observation, she has quietly mastered her medium of watercolor
– concerned only with beauty, fantasy and the spirit of the natural world.
No angst, personal agendas, or flailing against the heavens, Jubb is content
to focus her prodigious gifts on creating lush, romantic, fanciful still-lifes
of tigers, orchids, bears, housecats, summer and tropical bouquets, iguanas,
jungle birds in ways that few watercolorists can even imitate.
Oh, and yes, her works are in Museum collections, corporate
headquarters, and private collections in Asia and the Americas. And this
always-fresh artist has provided illustrations for image driven children’s
books and has been featured in arts magazines, often to share her technical
prowess with colleagues and students. Jubb has frequent exhibitions in
Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Washington, Oregon, California, and
Hawaii. She also exhibits in her home state, Montana, where she is never far
from the bounty of natural beauty she celebrates.
