Jay Long

I create mixed-media paintings on birch panel. The panel is covered in linen, gessoed, collaged with text, and then finished with acrylic and oil paints. My creative process begins with a sketch of an idea. Ideas are sometimes inspired by literature, music, or theater as a way of personally interpreting historic and contemporary culture. Other sketches are created automatically, without premeditation, in order to discover the features of a character or a scene more as a participant in the emerging idea than as its creator.