Jay G. Davis
Photography
web site:
www.jgdavisphotography.com
email: jgdavisphotography@hotmail.com
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While growing up in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, I found myself becoming fascinated with photography at about the age of fourteen. My first “camera” was a Quaker Oats round box with a pin hole! My first real camera was a Kodak Instamatic with the 126 film cartridge and the flash cube. My first real job I photography was in my junior year of high school. I worked for a crusty old commercial catalogue photographer. Most of my time was spent in a darkroom, loading 8 x 10 film backs. On rare occasion, I got to spend time in the camera room moving lights and product to be just so. The lessons learned are still valuable today. I left the commercial studio in favor of working in a portrait and wedding studio learning the classic poses and lighting techniques. Today, I am using a lot of the same techniques that I learned years ago. While most of my work is in architectural and product photography, I find myself experimenting more with digital and different lighting “tools”. I hope you enjoy my work. Thanks again and enjoy.
Jody Anderson
I am fascinated with color, light and shadow. I find myself constantly observing how light plays against objects and the colors that can be found in the deep shadows. Having no formal training in art, I picked up my first paint brush in 2000. While I have painted in groups over the years, I now find great joy in the solitude of my studio almost daily setting up and painting still life work. The collecting and incorporating of my finds into my oil work fulfills my desire to create an artistic and restful painting.
I recognize my talent as a gift from the Lord and enjoy looking for all the ways He has created beauty in the play of light and shadow in nature. I observe and learn a lot from my daily nature walks and I try to bring back what I see into my artwork.
While my current artistic passion is still life, I also enjoy figurative and landscapes as well. Having studied with Jeff Hepworth and Elizabeth Robbins, I also have a great appreciation for works of the Masters, Vermeer and John Singer Sargent. Very simply, I feel I was designed with a creative spirit and hope to use that gift to bring a place of rest to those who observe my art. I am very thankful for what I have been given in life and hopeful to pass along inspiration for others to see all the goodness God has created.
I currently reside in Omaha with my wonderful husband Frosty and we have four grown daughters who bring us much joy!
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