About Jarvis Wilcox

Jarvis Wilcox
11 Clapboard Hill Rd Westport, CT 06880
203-255-4104

7 West 81st St
New York, NY 10024
212-580-2868


A Statement

As the practitioner of a non-verbal art, it is difficult to put into words what that art comprehends, so if this statement is less than eloquent, please excuse and simply absorb the paintings.

The art in painting is not simply the representation of a subject, but the haunting echoes between the objects presented and the resemblances to other experiences the viewer has had. In other words, the poetry of painting lies not in the images presented so much as in the connections stimulated or brought to heart by the picture. Art, any art, is the means of communicating emotional, intuitive, subjective understanding and knowledge which can be expressed in no other way.

This is my credo; the goal of my painting. I am trying to stimulate another to an excitement, a delight, an understanding at least analogous to mine in doing the painting. In a way a painting is a mood sustained and realized. A picture cannot be comprehended in a glance; paintings like all the temporal arts and most good red wines take time and if good, ...Enjoy!


Jarvis Wilcox