Pencil

I worked on this portrait of Mr. Bateman over several years. When I finally called it complete, I had no idea what to do with it. After several weeks thinking about it, I contacted the Bateman’s and asked if I could just send it to them… as a gift and didn’t expect anything in return. Within a couple of months, I found out that it is hanging in the Bateman Museum and is featured on the opening page on the 2014 Robert Bateman Calendar. I couldn’t have asked for more than that.

This is a very familiar scene on the stone buildings in Ware Massachusetts. As those buildings age, they hold a lot of built-in character that gets better every year. It’s been several years since I’ve taken a look at them, but if I went tomorrow, I know I’d find many sparrows scattered on the exterior walls

I got to know this farmers land pretty well because it was only through the woods behind my house. The years have not been kind to this farm since I finished this drawing back in 2006. I consider myself lucky to have seen it during its better days.

Image Credits

All Images Are © Ryan Jacque

Ryan Jacque Artist Bio

Ryan Douglas Jacque is a native of Western Massachusetts where he still resides.  At a young age Ryan attended art workshops at The George Walter Vincent Smith Museum in Springfield Mass and studied fine line drawing at the now defunct Ashton Institute of Art in Newington, CT.  Ryan attended Ringling College of Art and Design on a portfolio scholarship and later studied at Paier College of Art in Hamden, CT.  As an art student, Ryan was privileged to participate in a week-long field study John Seerey-Lester’s “Wilderness Art Workshop” in Denali National Park, Alaska along with Alan Hunt and the late Paco Young.  Ryan has taught workshops at The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.

Special Honor

Ryan’s portrait of internationally know wildlife artist Robert Bateman, which Ryan gifted to Mr. Bateman in 2013, was enlarged with Ryan’s permission and is on permanent display at The Robert Bateman Centre in Victoria, BC.  The newly opened Bateman Centre houses the largest single collection of Mr. Bateman’s works in the world and is open to the public.

Awards

Special Merit Award from lightspacetime’s 2013 Figurative Art Exhibition
2013 Named Illustrator of the Year and also received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from Art Design Consultants in Cincinnati, Ohio at their annual “Art Comes Alive” Exhibition
2001 – Initial Jury awarded membership into the Society of Animal Artist in New York City.
2001 – First time recipient of the Society of Animal Artists Evelyn and Peter Haller Distinguished young Artist award.
Artwork chosen for the 1998 and 2005 Massachusetts Primitive Arms and Archery Stamp.
Two time recipient of The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant.
Original works “Autumn Chill” and “Last Days of Summer” purchased by Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum for its permanent collection.

Exhibitions

American Association of Equine Art’s 2014 Invitation Exhibition at Spindletop Hall in Lexington, Kentucky, April 18th-May 30th, 2014
Juried into Art Design Consultants, 2013 “Art Comes Alive” Exhibition in Cincinnati, OH 2013
Juried into Art Design Consultants, 2013 “Art Comes Alive” Exhibition in Cincinnati, OH 2013
Juried into the Hudson Valley Art Association 81st annual exhibit 2013.
Juried into lightspacetime’s June 2013 Figurative Art Exhibition
Participated in the 2013 invitational 30th Anniversary Celebration Exhibit at The Francesca Anderson Fine Art Gallery in Lexington, Ma.
Juried into the International Guild of Realism Exhibit, Naples, FL 2009.
Juried into The Society of Animal Artists’ “Art and the Animal” Exhibition in 2001 and 2005.
Juried into “The Nature of Black and White” at the Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum in Oradell New Jersey.
Included in Birds of America, September through November 2007 at The Francesca Anderson Fine Art Gallery in Lexington, MA.
Juried into the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s “Birds in Art” exhibit in Wausau, Wisconsin: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2013. Ryan’s submissions have been included each year in BIA’s traveling exhibits at museums around the country.

Galleries

The Charlestown Gallery, Charlestown, Rhode Island
Collectors’ Gallery, Venice, Florida
Francesca Anderson Fine Art Gallery, Lexington, KY
Hope & Feathers Art Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Professional Affiliations

Society of Animal Artists
Pencil Art Society

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