Leaves, Letters, Lavender

Jarvis’s work explores issues of conservation and human relationships to natural materials and landscapes. She draws uncommon analogies between disparate forms, objects and materials to construct narratives of real and imagined landscapes. Coming of age in the rural Virginia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, her memories and enchantment with nature spring from early encounters in the southern landscape of her childhood. This landscape is indelibly inscribed in her mind’s eye giving consciousness to feelings, ideas, and perceptions of scale, stories, familial knowledge and memories of a distinctive southern place. She explores the energy in materials, their emanating auras, textures and sources of power.* Thus, Leaves, Letters, Lavender with its collaged leaves and faint representation of a southern cabin demonstrates Jackson’s signature style. *http://marthajacksonjarvis.com/artist-statement