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 Jaye Rhye

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 Jaye Rhye

An adaptable artist based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Montebello, Virginia. Jaye delivers a visual combination of exuberant colors and fastidious details summoning a clear perspective to any story. Her work spans across many mediums from watercolor, pen and ink, pastels, colored pencils, markers, and more. She focuses on character design, surrealism, whimsical, impressionism and realism. She also has a strong foundation in many areas of art from teaching, art therapy, studio art and media designs, including book illustrations, brochures, menus, business cards, invitations, and more. She graduated in 1998 with a BA in Studio Art, Education and Psychology. Jaye is always working to improve her artistic skills, learning how to merge traditional and digital art, mixed media and genres of art illustration. She is detail oriented, ready, eager to collaborate and translate into illustrations, focusing on painting a series of specific styles and enhancing her portfolio experience.

“Every Experience, whether good, bad, or beautiful is an opportunity to grow and evolve. Here’s to another day of growth!”

-Jaye Rhye

Jaye Rhye

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Throughout my career I have submerged myself into a variety of creative and artistic disciplines which has increased my ability to be adaptable, self motivated with a wide variety of experiences and diversity. I have taught art, used an array of arts in a therapeutic setting and cultivated a desire to work in a combination of mixed media vacillating to a smaller more detailed canvas. Creating works of art based on nature's beauty and versatility allows me to conjure complex themes chronicling a unique narrative. While food may not initially be considered a traditional art form I have been able to use my creative perspectives in this arena. I managed to utilize my visionary skills in combination with my love of nature, repurposing and independent living to establish a farm to table business. Meals were planned around seasonal vegetable harvest, fresh organic ingredients adherent to all individual dietary needs delivered weekly for the flexibility and convenience of working families. In addition to this business I recently embarked on a baking business deliberately adapting recipes to address the ever increasing food allergens producing my own cheese, yogurts, flours and use of alternate ingredients. This highlights my diversity, creativity and independent conceptualizing. I would love the opportunity to focus on my visual art, fulfill my desire and dream to work solely on a series of paintings without having the distractions of everyday life obligations. I am finally at a point in my life where I can actually take the time to put all my attention and skill toward my art.

Accomplishments

Taught Art in a variety of  settings, disciplines and age groups. 

Ladd Elementary

Riverheads Elementary

Middlebrook Elementary

Hugh Castle Elementary

Bessie Weller Elementary

Staunton Fine Arts Center

Staunton and Augusta County Recreation  Center

Marry Baldwin College

Blue Ridge College

Recreation Therapist:

Commonwealth Center : Children and Adolescents Psychiatric Hospital

Region Ten: Horizons Center for dual diagnosed adults

Independently Owned and operated Six business’s since the age of nineteen

Designed a variety of business cards, Logos, Signs, Menus, book illustrations.

Sold  artworks in Beverly Street Art Gallery and  Va.  Fine Arts Center 

Have completed over one hundred art shows across Virginia and Pennsylvania

I am currently working on writing a book, a series of mixed media Surrealist and Impresionistic paintings in conjunction to a line of  greeting cards and woodland animals, flowers, landscape realist illustrations.

I would love the opportunity to focus on Art without the distractions of work and everyday obligations.