February, 2025
Artist of the Month

Stephanie Jamgochian has been painting since 2006 mentored by renowned Santa Barbara painter Patricia Chidlaw.  She has received numerous awards for her work including the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum’s 10th Anniversary Art Show, the Santa Barbara Arts Commission’s Santa Barbara Art Roots: Celebrating 60 Years juried show at the Channing Peake Gallery, the Santa Barbara Art Association’s annual juried show in 2014 and 2017 and has featured work at Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, the Faulkner Gallery East, Gallery 113 in Santa Barbara, the Charles Lo Bu Gallery in Carpinteria and the former Person-Ryan Gallery in Summerland, California. She sells paintings directly and at art shows in the Santa Barbara area. She is a member of the Santa Barbara Art Association.

Artist Statement: Water Forms

I am a representational oil painter who seeks out environments that are familiar and ordinary but are often overlooked. In this series, water forms are all around us. They exist in vast, expansive places like the ocean and in places like puddles left in the aftermath of a rain storm. We encounter water and its many forms often without notice. We recreate in it, it provides nourishment for living things, including a multitude of creatures live beneath the sea, often out of view. These paintings are a collection of water as it forms and is experienced in everyday life.

Stephanie Jamgochian
(805) 448-7831
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website: stephaniejamgochian.com
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