Attendees of the Park City Kimball Arts Festival have seen Midway-based fine artist Jordan Daines create a painting on the spot.
“I love painting live during the festival because it’s a great way to meet new people and show what I do,” she said. “One of the things I like to do is showcase my process, and it’s fun to get that out there.”
Art lovers will get a chance to see Daines paint live indoors when she creates a new work titled “Reveal” during her solo exhibit opening from 5-9 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7, at Pando Fine Art, 444 Main St.
“I will paint a large work at my show, and people will be able to ask me about my process and get more of an understanding of what I do,” she said. “I love painting at my shows. I get work done and meet clients.”
Midway-based visual artist Jordan Daines creates her paintings, such as “Conversation,” by applying large amounts of oil paints onto a canvas and scraping away the medium with a palette knife.
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In addition to the live painting, Daines will exhibit 12 new works and some older works.
“Among the new works is a massive diptych, which I think is interesting,” she said.
Daines created all the works with palette knives and oil paint, her exclusive medium, which she landed on after working with acrylic and watercolor.
“I like the texture and richness of oil, but I never felt I could get the texture I was looking for with my brushes,” she said. “So when I mixed paints with my knives, I found I could load so much more paint on my canvas. And that got rid of having to wash my brushes. I don‘t want to paint and have to clean up with all of these solvents. So my clean up now is just wiping off my knives. If you see my work in person, you can see how rich the texture is, and you can’t get that with other mediums.”
Daines is drawn to color, and that’s where most of her works begin.
“I think about what colors I’m feeling,” she said. “I guess you could call it ‘expressionist’ because sometimes I’ll do a whole body of work and see that I was very into blue or see that every painting has pink in them.”
Once the artist decides on a couple of colors and a color scheme, she’ll lay them down and fill the whole canvas with the oils.
Oil painter Jordan Daines usually starts a work, like “Grove,” by coming up with a color scheme.
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“Some people ask if I use thickener, but I don’t,” she said. “I just use a lot of paint. That’s when things begin to morph into different shapes.”
Daines thinks about color and shade contrasts as well as the thickness and thinness of the paint.
“I look at how the colors melt into each other or how they can be stark or subtle contrasts of each other,” she said. “I also like to add white spaces, like lighter, more quiet spaces.”
Once the paint is on the canvas, Daines begins to scrape with her knives.
“That makes interesting compositions that become more objective when you look at them,” she said. “I never really have a finished product in my head because I know that a lot of textures and colors will emerge once I scrape through the paint. And that is why this particular painting I plan to do on Saturday is named ‘Reveal.’”
While many artists struggle to determine when a work is done, Daines does not.
“One of my things that I feel is a strength is that I’m not a perfectionist,” she said with a laugh. “While being a perfectionist may be a strength for others, I feel like imperfections are part of the power of my work. There are times when I will go back and work with something that doesn’t sit well with me, but typically I’ll be done when I scrape through.”
Although Midway-based oii painter has titled this work “Absolute,” she says not being a perfectionist has helped her know when a work is finished.
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Daines said that gives the work more weight in terms of being “in the moment.”
“Since the work is a direct process of what I do, I don’t like to fiddle too much with it because I found the more I go back and go over different parts, you can tell that it’s overworked,” she said. “There are times when I will go back and work on something that doesn’t quite sit right with me. But I like to go in, scrape and get out.”
Daines was drawn to visual arts when she was a child.
“I loved to create and draw, and I felt like I was good at it,” she said with another laugh. “I remember when I was in second grade and made a ceramic pig, even though I don’t make three-dimensional art now. I was very proud of it, and from there, it was like, ‘I’m an artist.’ Whether or not I was that good or not, I felt like I was. And that propelled me forward.”
When Daines was in fifth grade, she asked her mother for an oil-paint set as a reward for practicing piano.
“I don’t think I would buy my child an oil paint set because it’s so messy,” she said, laughing again. “Luckily my mom was nice enough to let me use a really messy medium.”
Daines continued painting through high school and studied with Masri Hayssam in Italy, before graduating with a bachelor of fine arts from Utah State University’s Caine School of the Arts.
Some of her artistic influences include Gerhard Richter, Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol and Cy Twombly.
“They are all good colorists, and Cy Twombly does some great textures, too,” she said.
Daines has been with Pando Fine Art since 2017, after living in Los Angeles for 10 years.
“Moving back to Park City and getting into the Utah art market with Pando has been such a great thing for my art career,” she said. “I love the staff and how they treat the customers and clients. I’ve been treated really well as an artist, and I am able to show a lot of work with these shows. There is a lot of energy and a lot of people who are passionate about art.”
Jordan Daines ‘Reveal’ exhibit and live painting