Comments on: Conversation with Jane Culp

By: Bill White

Bill White — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 16:18:43 +0000

Jane has shared her passion for painting with us and her work has an immediacy and vitality that derives from her being in the place she loves
I treasure the drawing we have of Jane’s and the late pastels of Louis too
Louis was a big influence on my thinking from his writing and his Thought on the Painterly clarified thoughts I had about my own work in the early 1970’s
Thanks to Jane the collected essays was published so these ideas can be shared and considered long into the future
This was like making a personal visit to Jane’s
Thanks

By: Diane Cokely

Diane Cokely — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:05:40 +0000

Very wonderful to see your paintings, Jane.
Love the blues. Remember out batik lessons with Mr. Roy? I think of both of you sometimes. Your house is interesting. Nice also to see the photos of you. I just took an abstract watercolor class.

By: Ginnie Gardiner

Ginnie Gardiner — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 14:37:22 +0000

In reply to jane Culp. Yes, I love his 'Berkeley' series

By: Esther Jantzen

Esther Jantzen — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 18:55:25 +0000

Oh, Jane, I’m no visual artist, or art critic, or art student, or even well informed. But I LOVED reading this illuminating interview and seeing these photos of your work. I’m transported back to the times when I saw your studio and its immediate landscape, to the power and ecstasy that radiates there–and around your work. I’m in awe now, as I was then. Sending you great appreciation and love, Esther.

By: jane Culp

jane Culp — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 02:43:31 +0000

In reply to Ginnie Gardiner. Thank You for your comments, Ginnie. i love Diebenkorn's landscape paintings.

By: JoAnn Chartier

JoAnn Chartier — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 17:43:21 +0000

I’m about a foot off the ground after having read this piece and studied the paintings. Like Jane Culp, I love rocks, from pebbles on the beach to the mountains they came from, rocks — and water– are the underpinnings of landscape and life for me.

Thank you Larry — this is an excellent conversation and I appreciate the length, breadth and depth as well as the introduction to an artist I didn’t know.

By: Ginnie Gardiner

Ginnie Gardiner — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:24:47 +0000

Oops! Here’s a better link to the Diebenkorn interview on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV1ZHh9wl7w

By: Ginnie Gardiner

Ginnie Gardiner — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:21:40 +0000

These are wonderful paintings and I am grateful for the unselfish and honest reflections on your life and work.

Quoting from you:

‘if I’m going to spend my time painting, which is hard enough, I’d rather be painting someplace that I love where I can hear my feelings speak. When I moved here, I felt I had moved into my drawings.’

Addressing how places claim you, in a youtube interview ‘Richard Diebenkorn on Beginning a Painting’ says: “Very often if you go the locale where an artist works, you’ll suddenly know that you’re in this person’s area.” (It’s satisfying to hear Diebenkorn’s voice in this interview.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV1ZHh9wl7