Jeff Juhlin is a nationally recognized artist known for his Encaustic / Mixed Media painting work that evokes a meditative and grounded exploration of color, space and mark making. His work is about discovery, the hint of possibility. It’s about the layers, the flow and the strata of things substantive, imagined, physical and implicit.

Juhlin works by accumulating layers of material, images and color that make up the whole of a work, then he goes back in to explore, excavate, expose and obscure. The end result is a non-literal visual form, a translation of that experience and process. “Often we see only the surface of things when in reality there are many layers, artifacts, histories, clues that hint of something curious and magical that might lay beneath the surface waiting to be discovered, excavated, explored and experienced. “

He adds, “ My work seeks to reflect a sense of stillness, space and the visual history of time evident in the western landscape. The work alludes to the raw typography and vast space where I live and work. In this environment, time often reveals itself in the form of rock strata created by erosion, wind and water both building up in over eons of time and wearing away by the elements in a continuous process.”