Jeffrey Anderholm - Artist’s Statement

Sometime in the mid 1960s, my parents dutifully enrolled me - a young kid - in Saturday art classes in Hartford CT in an effort to help me discover what I was good at.  Did I have an epiphanic moment or two?  Not really.  But it was fun to draw, paint and make a mess.

Over the succeeding decades of education, work and life I didn’t explore my artistic side much at all.  I drew on my school book covers.   Made some really compelling Powerpoint slides.

After a career as a software executive and a career as an innkeeper, I retired to the southern Maine coast.  Suddenly, I had time on my hands once again.  Then, I remembered that I liked drawing, painting and making a mess.  So I took oil painting classes.   

Today, I truly enjoy the process of creating art:  conceptualizing, thinking about how to approach a blank canvas.  The process involves emotional up’s and down’s — procrastination, excitement, encouragement, despair, rebounding from despair, and then a sense of accomplishment in the finished work.

Most of my paintings you see here are inspired by things I’m fortunate to see every day where I live on the Maine coast.   I hope you find inspiration and beauty in these images as well.

Interested in purchasing my art? My current catalog is found on the Portfolio page. Email me at jeffrey.anderholm@gmail.com to get the conversation going.