James Jensen
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Armillary II
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Conquest
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Orange Blue Bocce Ball JEN3030-00197
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Alaska
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Anatole
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Aquarius
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Bagpipe Player 683L
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Beechwood
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Big Apple Flag
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Bighorn
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Brave New World
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Buddha's Peeking 00417
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Buddha's Peeking 00418
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Bull Chief 101L
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Bull Chief JEN2020-10262
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Bull Chief JEN2020-10275 20x20
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Candy Land
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Cascade
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Cellist 679L
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Chief Pretty Nose JEN2020-10272
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Child’s play
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Classic Elegance
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Contact
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Crimson
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Delphi
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Disintegrate
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Eldorado
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Empire
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Faces Of Buddha
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Factory
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Fire And Ice
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Fog Bank
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Forever Country
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Fornaio
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Game day
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Golden Finch
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Golden Heart 2
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Green Heart
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Green Red Bocce Ball 00195
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Green Red Paintball 85V
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Green Sunflower JEN2020-10429
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Grey Wolf
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Head Carry 10139
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Head Carry JEN2020-10267
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Head Carry JEN2020-10269
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Heart Blue & Red
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Heart Orange & Grey 10231
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Heart Orange & Pink
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Heart Purple & Grey 10230
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Heart Red & Grey 10232
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Heart Red & Turquoise
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Heraldry
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Hollow Horn Bear 10175
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Hollow Horn Bear JEN2020-10274
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Honor
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Hydrangeas
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Hydrangeas
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Icebreaker
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Imprint
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Inception
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Janus
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Jasper Series 10126
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Jasper Series 10129
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King Chess Piece 131L
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Las Brisas
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Libera Me 110L
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Lime Crimson Paintball 89V
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Little Hawk 10136
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Lute Player 684L
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Magenta Buddha JEN2020-10212
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Magenta Orange Paintball 86V
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Mahogany
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Mahogany
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Mandolin Player 680L
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Midnight
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Migration
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Mountain Lion
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Movies That Rock
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Mystery
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Napoleon & Josephine 00143
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Nautilus
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Navigate
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Navigate
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Nine Bocce Balls
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Oasis 10165
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Oceanus
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Old Logan
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Orange Heart 10224
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Orange Sunflower JEN2020-10432
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Orbit Series 00261
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Orbit Series 0026s
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Paint Mixer
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Pandora 10149
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Pawn Chess Piece 134L
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Perish
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Plum Blossoms 00138
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Pop hearts #2
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Pop hearts #3
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Poppy Purple 10160
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Poppy Red 10159
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Poppy Yellow 10161
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Primavera
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Purple Heart 10154
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Purple Heart 10223
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Purple Iris
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Purple Sunflower JEN2020-10431
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Rare Earth
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Recorder Player 681L
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Red Heart 10222
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Red Lime Paintball 83V
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Red Ribbon Series 00305
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Red Ribbon Series 00307
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Red Ribbon Series 00308
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Red Ribbon Series 00309
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Red Ribbon Series 00310
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Red Ribbon Series 00313
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Red Shirt JEN2020-10268
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Red Shirt JEN2020-10277
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Red Tulip 10158
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Red Wing JEN2020-10270
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Ribbon Series Deep Yellow
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Ribbon Series Orange
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Ribbon Series Ultramarine
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Rocky Mountain Elk
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Romeo & Juliet 00144
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Rose Kimono
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Running Antelope 10212
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Salish Chief Eagle JEN2020-10276 20x20
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Sandstorm
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Scottish Highland
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Scottish Highland on Black
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Secrets JEN4860-10220
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Shake It Up
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Shiel I
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Showtime
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Showtime
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Sitting Bull 00120
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Sitting Bull JEN2020-10266
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Sports Legend Flag
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Stage Lights
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Stone Age
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Study 2
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Study 7
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Study 8
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Sunflower Series 00072
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Tangle
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The Bulls
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The Flautist
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The Fruit Basket 00413
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The Golden Flower Suite 165L
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The Golden Flower Suite 166L
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The Golden Flower Suite 167L
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The Harpist
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The Harpist 682L
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The Kiss
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The Quarry
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The Quarry 10115
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The Terrace
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The Thoroughbred
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The Tower
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Thunder
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Tides
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Timepiece
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Titan
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Tulip Green 10156
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Tulip Purple 10157
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Tulip White & Black 10239
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Tulip White Red 10220
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Venus
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Warrior Chief Pretty Nose 10173
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Weasel Trail 10137
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White Shield 10141
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Wild Ride JEN4848-10219
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Winter Pond 10146
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Winter's Tale
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Yellow Sunflower JEN2020-10430
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Yellow Tulip 00129
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Young Buck
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Young Crow 10142
As an artist there is a constant challenge to look at your world differently, closer, to deconstruct and then re-arrange images that are memorable. My work is a reflection of this simple premise. To back up a little, each painting contains some common themes that are quite primal as an artist and certainly as a viewer. Color. Texture. Motion.
Studying the world of imagery, and how I could make a mark artistically, started innocently enough – art schools and travel filled my curiosity and determination to express my own journey visually. In fact, some of very basic lessons learned right away are still a loud factor in my thoughts: the balance and weight of objects in a painting, the composition, and the priority of attention to each area of a work. When looking at one of my paintings you'll see these strong elements constantly in play, sometimes in aggravation, sometimes in harmony.
The paintings start out with a great sense of chaos – quick exciting strokes of paint, literally the joy of painting can be seen in this stage. But a chaotic painting is not where it ends . . . this is when the story starts. I need to invite a sense of depth and therein lies the decision-making process that takes over. My paintings contain a lot of elements, strong, subtle, freeform and architectural. In addition there are a list of ingredients that enter the work. To make all this make sense and not overwhelm, I must trust my sense of balance and editing in every stage. The final execution is a singular journey to each painting that is usually quite strong, yet up close there are delicate subtle areas that take the painting to layers of story.
I love red. It's hard not to grab for red paint each time I'm in the studio. So always up for a challenge, sometimes I indulge this passion, and other times banish the color altogether. This illustrates but just one daily challenge a thinking artist should embrace: their expertise versus the unknown.
My training was very classic and traditional, drawing and painting. Here even an abstract contemporary artist learns the limitations and abilities of paint, structure, composition. I have found it invaluable to have a classic education in painting...even today, amidst all of the electricity of my paintings, they are still of an old master color palette which has proven to invite the viewer emotionally, compelling and effortless.