Jason is a watercolor artist, licensed architect (WA#8678), and illustrator. He has a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from Lawrence University (go Vikes!) and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Texas at Austin (Hook 'em Horns!). A Colorado native, he now lives in northwest Washington with his wife, sons, dogs, and scads of fishing equipment. Of average height, he is nevertheless 6 feet 4 inches tall at heart.

“G.K. Chesterton once asked (rhetorically, as it turned out) ‘When is a miracle not a miracle?' His answer? When you see it for the second time.’ The purpose of my art is to help me - and maybe you too! - see everything as if for the first time. But how? It’s tempting - and it can be lucrative- to wake up in the same world every day, determined to find and maintain your edge. In fact, each of us must do this, to an extent. But the rewards of waking up in a brand new world each morning, with the wonder of a stunned and grateful Adam in the garden, are likewise undeniable. In the paintings you see here, I use three techniques to help us see things in a new light. 1. CHANGE YOUR POV. We’ve all seen a bee headed full-tilt for a flower. But what if you saw it from the point of view of the bee on the next flower over? “Incoming” is my answer to this question. After all, It’s called “the birds and the bees” for a reason. 2. ZOOM IN / ZOOM OUT. What would the sun and the earth look like if you were an angel - or Milton’s fallen angel - winging your way through the aether? “Fire and Ice” and “Ice and Fire” maybe. 3. CHANGE YOUR SHOES. If you were a midge, instead of a somewhat chunky middle-aged human male, the brook trout in “Salvelinus Fontenalis” would look like JAWS, a cold super-predator, instead of like a light breakfast.

Everything around us is astounding. The stuff we didn’t make - bumblebees, brook trout, supernovas- is all astonishing. Of the stuff we made, some is atrocious (leisure suits, nuclear bombs, soviet architecture) and some is marvelous (Vermeer’s Milkmaid, the Bialetti stovetop espresso maker, a size 12 elk hair caddis). But all of it - if you tilt your head just right - can be reclaimed, for Beauty’s sake. Whoa! Also, have some hot wings and a Budweiser.