Valley Art Gallery in Orcutt announced Jill Iversen as the featured artist of the month for April.
Iversen’s collection, Down on the Farm, is available for view in the gallery from April 3 through 29. Iversen graduated from the Art Center School of Design at Pasadena and works in oil, acrylic, and watercolors. She is author and illustrator of two children’s books and now focuses on her career in art after she moved back to the Orcutt area with her husband, who was himself raised on a local dairy farm.
Iversen worked as a ranch hand beginning at age 14 and continued that lifestyle for 20 years. She married and set down roots in that community of ranchers, observing the horses, goats, chickens, dogs, and cats in her daily work. She is also the current artist in residence at the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum.
“I love the way that producing art at the Discovery Museum begins as a repetitive cycle,” Iversen stated in a press release. “Observe, organize, create, clean up, repeat; but as in any creative process, there are myriad possibilities for outcome.”
A reception for the artist is planned for April 6 from 5 to 7 p.m. Valley Art Gallery is located at 125 W. Clark Ave., Orcutt. More info: (805) 937-2278.
This article appears in Mar 29 – Apr 5, 2018.