Happy new year from us at Jacobson native art and studio

 

Wishing you All the best. What a year 2020 has been. We have so much to be thankful for as this has been a very challenging year for many of us. Continue to stay strong and vigilant. Have one another’s back out there and let’s bring in 2021 with a fresh new energy and spirit. 

I’ll be kickin back in the art studio tonight sharing the good vibe and having good thoughts and actions for the new year of 2021. Much love to all of you...all my relations....MAJ

ENJOY THIS TRACK and let’s bring in 2021 as those who are skywalking:

Limited editions on canvas being released at Jacobson native art

Title: Meditation 

Size of print: 20 x 20 inches

Unstretched canvas

Limited edition size: 140 per unit

Each unit comes signed & numbered

Price per unit: $400

Title: Spiritually connected

Size of print: 14 x 28 inches

Unstretched canvas

Limited edition size: 200 per unit

Each unit comes signed & numbered

Price per unit: $450

Title: Mother and child

Size of print: 18 x 24 inches

Unstretched canvas

Limited edition size: 140 per unit

Each unit comes signed & numbered

Price per unit: $400

Good evening to each and everyone. Just got back from travelling to Creston B.C. this afternoon and back to our location deep in the east shore of the Kootenay’s. What a change from our community of 300 souls to the action and buzz of a small city. It sure makes us feel grateful to be out here during this COVID situation. 

We have been practicing social distancing for almost 2 years now. We have become experts in the field and have benefited greatly with the beauty and blessings of our son, Sagein Wisdom. He just turned 3 years old and his impact in my life has been the most profound energy and experience ever, in my life. He’s the whole reason why I’m out here enjoying life in these mountains. He was born in Nelson B.C. so he’s a kootenay boy through and through. 

It is always a great energy sharing these experiences with you all. I have enjoyed working on sone new creative initiatives through this pandemic and I’ve brought forth some new limited editions on canvas that I’m glad to introduce to all of those who embrace and enjoy my art. Thank you for all your appreciation and support. If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to ask by sending me an email to: 

jacobson101@hotmail.com

Enjoying the artistic process of being an artist at Jacobson native art

 Good day to each and everyone. Wishing you all good health, strength and blessings. Just feeling quite happy these days. Working on new paintings, doing backgrounds, filling in colours, colour details etc in the studio. 

I have about 38 canvases on the go at the moment. All being worked on in different stages. Also been working on the new website, investing in inventory, creating new ideas towards marketing etc in the world of what I do as an artist. 

Life is good out here deep in the Kootenay mountains. I’m very excited about life and the new changes coming for all humanity and the planet. I see things in a good light, regard;ess of the struggle to get there, we will find a better way. Hope and faith are important principles in the life of an artist. And with that, enjoy yourselves as much as possible. Don’t let the struggles of the pandemic get you down...

All my relations and enjoy this beauty of a track:.....MAJ

Reflecting on previous works at Jacobson native art

 Title of painting: For family generations

Size: 48 x 120 inches. Sold to private collection 

Ottawa, Ontario 2014

Wishing each and everyone a beautiful day. I have always loved working on bigger canvases here at Jacobson native art. This piece was a special commission for a collector in Ottawa Ontario. I painted it in Vancouver B.C. in the summer of 2014, flew to Ottawa with the painting along with a few others for a private exhibition there. Fun times and wishing each and everyone a healthy and positive weekend. Stay safe and continue to be vigilant in looking after your health during COVID-19 in December of 2020. All my relations, MAJ

New limited editions available at Jacobson native art (part 2)

Title: Shamans transformation 

Size of print: 14 x 18 inches

Stretched on gallery canvas

Ready to hang

Limited edition size: 100 per unit

Each unit comes signed & numbered

Price per unit: $450

Title: Honouring the elementals - air and water

Size of print: 14 x 18 inches

Stretched on gallery canvas

Ready to hang

Limited edition size: 100 per unit

Each unit comes signed & numbered

Price per unit: $450

Title: Bear power - abundance of Mother Nature 

Size of print: 14 x 18 inches

Stretched on gallery canvas

Ready to hang

Limited edition size: 100 per unit

Each unit comes signed & numbered

Price per unit: $450

Title: Bear clan teaching - respect and honour 

for nature’s life cycles

Size of print: 14 x 18 inches

Stretched on gallery canvas

Ready to hang

Limited edition size: 100 per unit

Each unit comes signed & numbered

Price per unit: $450

Good afternoon everyone. Here’s to good blessings and positive energy and spiritual force being sent out to all directions. I wanted to share with you a more detailed information package on this new series of prints on stretched gallery canvas. Each unit comes with a wire on back, ready to hang. 

They are marvellous new editions being released to the public only through my art studio here at Jacobson native art. For inquiries please email me at: 

jacobson101@hotmail.com

Here at the Jacobson art studio, our boy just turned 3 years old. Happy birthday, son.

 

Hope all is well with each and everyone. Wishing you many blessings of love, hope, faith and charity. The  big news these days is that my son, Sagein Wisdom just turned 3 years old the other day. Oh my goodness what an absolutely divine creation he is. I have never loved someone so much as I do my boy. 

He is the most Beautiful being I’ve ever laid my eyes on. I can’t believe it, how spectacular and blown away I am by his life. These last 3 years of learning how to be a dad to him, to give him all the space and room to be his dynamic self is simply incredible. I have never loved someone so much. He’s completely changed my life. 

He’s made me better in so many ways it’s just too powerful. I am humbled and graced by his magnificence  and beauty. He’s the greatest thing to ever happen to me. It’s so profound loving a child, a gift that we are given to nurture and love each and every day. He changes me, daily. The most powerful teacher I’ve  ever met. 

Sagein, you are everything to me. You are the most incredible being I’ve ever had the privilege to meet and get to know up at this point of our journey at the marvellous age of 3. Your incredible momma Kassondra is simply the best mom I have ever seen. You are truly such a blessing. I tell you every day that you are a dream come true. Because that’s exactly what you are. I love you more than anything in the world. You are my number one. My inspiration, my best lil friend in the whole universe. 

I love being your daddy. You are the patriarch of the entire Jacobson bloodline as your grandfather, my father, Gerald Frank Jacobson was the first born son to his parents, great grandfather Yert and great grandmother Clara Jacobson. Your great grandparents on the Jacobson side of the bloodline had 14 children. 

Your great grandfather Nick Kowalow and great grandmother Victoria Oskineegish had 9 children. Your grandmother Helen Kowalow Chukra is my mother. I am her and grandpa Geralds first born son. You are my first born child and this makes you the new patriarch of our bloodline. We are mesmerized by your creativity, curiosity and incredible beingness. Happy birthday baby boy. I love you for eternity...your father, Mark Anthony Jacobson. XOXO

Jacobson native art catalogue detailing the exhibition in Belgium

 

Wishing you all a good weekend and just wanted to share some excerpts from this recent catalogue done last year about an international exhibition I held in Belgium. This was done in collaboration with some beautiful souls who love and collect my art. 

It was an interesting and exciting project. They had their collection in the exhibition and it was received with deep appreciation and high excellence. It truly moves my spirit when those who are so moved by the art works that they desire to have exhibitions, internationally. To share the cultural pride and teachings with as many as they can. 

Any how here’s to discovering new and exciting relationships, connections and more of those who have found their way here at Jacobson native art. Have a beautiful weekend. All my relations, MAJ

Various paintings of Jacobson native art in collections and galleries across Canada

Good day to each and everyone. I sure wish many blessings of healing and wellness to anyone out there who is going through a struggle, or is having a difficult time. As we go into full swing of the second wave of Covid-19 and face a second lockdown nationwide, please know that I send my good prayers and blessings to those struggling. 

Isolation and quarantine has taken its toll on many of us. Let’s continue to be vigilant and try to share some inspiration and good energy while we continue to move forward heading into 2021. I wanted to share some interesting pictures of various paintings in collections and galleries that I’ve worked with over the years. I sure hope you find enjoyment in them and once again it is always a pleasure to keep the activity of new information and new updates flowing here at Jacobson native art. All my relations, MAJ

While painting in the studio, I love listening to progressive house...

 Today is a slack and chill day in the studio. Just cleansing my paint containers, organizing my tubes of paint, cleaning brushes and jamming out to some deep beats. I listen to various genres of music but I have to say that electronica is perhaps my favourite. 

I love having a creative and comfortable environment to work and play in. Creativity is such a powerful energy to be enveloped in. It is an honour to be an artist. To be a visionary, a storyteller, a culture bearer. 

Enjoy the weekend and here’s to a sample of one of my current favourite new tracks. It’s by Moshic the track title: Free and beautiful. Enjoy....MAJ

Explaining the artistic process of Mark Anthony Jacobson native art

Title of painting: Mother Nature in a dream state.

 Size: 48 x 72 inches. Sold to private collection, Montreal Que. 

Here’s to another wonderful day out here in the Kootenay mountains, the lands of the great Ktunaxa nation. We’ve gotten our first true snowfall of the year. During this season of the winter, I’ll be busy busy busy creating new paintings. I have several commissions to execute and I am working 0n collaborations and creative initiatives throughout Canada and abroad with regard to moving my creative energy in all sorts of new and exciting directions. 

I wanted to share some inside details as to what makes a “Jacobson“ a “Jacobson“ with regard to my creative process and practice as an Anishanabe artist. First of all, an open and clear mind sets the stage for better decision making and capacity for “in the moment” focus. This is the birthing place for me as an artist. Life has all kinds of distractions, situations, circumstances and problems along with the various issues we encounter along the journey with regard to people, places and events.

For me, that outside noise can be very distracting and so I need space to create. Psychic space is vital for freedom and quietness of mind, where the illumination of imagination rests. I prepare myself each and every time I create. I have my studio functioning in a manner that facilitates creative stimulation. A playful energy of excitement, joy, interest, focus and action. The way in how I maintain this environment is quite important to consistently “getting it right the first time” with my designs, the images, these blueprints of composition and technique in the art I create. 

Giving thanks each day is vital to maintaining a healthy attitude in today’s climate. I smudge and pray quite often and will use these ceremonies throughout a series of paintings that I’m working on. I use sage, sweet grass, cedar and tobacco to stay in the flow. I also do spring equinox and fall equinox ceremonies each year called “feasting the spirits” or a spirit feast. I do this to give thanks to the Creator, Mother Earth and all life force, creation. I do this to also give thanks to the ancestors. All those before us. To be mindful and appreciative of these things is a beautiful characteristic in ones Arsenal on living a human life on our Mother Earth. 

Life is a circle and what goes around comes around as they say. People before us have done these things and I find it to be important actions that one can experience to a deeper and more fruitful connection to the spirit of life, to all creation. Remember that for artists, consistency and playfulness are important elements in a creative life. Art should be what ever it wants to be in that sacred place of discovery and opportunity. 

In these particular realms is where I garner the best quality of energy for me to maintain what it takes to finish off either a painting or a series of paintings. The less distractions for me, the better. As we know life is ripe with all sorts of temptations and side tracks. Focus daily in the direction of our art and making it is vital to a healthy creative lifestyle.

Along with some ceremony to get in the flow, I listen to all sorts of music as well. Music is also a great facilitator of creative energy. Most of my work is done on my own, except for the times involved where I’ve had people apprentice with me during cycles of paintings and such. So with the amount of time to ones self, being comfortable in your own skin is a necessary skill in your creative portfolio. Art demands attention, it demands your time and focus. 

I have all sorts of other people’s artworks surrounding me in the studio as well. I collect First Nations art myself. I love our artforms across the country from coast to coast to coast. I have several pieces and find such a depth and quality in being a collector as well. Art heals and for me it is a true gift to be an artist and  also one who enjoys the art of others as much as making it.

Any how, this is a general outline of how I do what I do. Art is about relationships and in nature spirit is where I truly get to be “in tune” with the true depth and knowledge of these teachings. Mother Earth is my teacher in so many ways, it leaves me speechless. So I have to go out and make a painting of what I saw, of what I experienced. This is another reason why so many people resonate with my art. It speaks...

All my relations....MAJ