Jonathan grew up in Dillsburg PA, and
was accepted
into the Harrisburg Arts Magnet School his senior
year. He went on to study at the Maryland
Institute,
College of Art, then to Kutztown University, where he received his
BFA. He served 4 years in the Air Force before
returning to
the Harrisburg area where he has made his living as an artist and
performing musician.
He is often commissioned for pen & ink "house portraits", and is
known for his vibrantly colored oil paintings depicting the landscape. He is the youngest member of the Seven Lively Artists and was part of their 50 year retrospective exhibition at the Cumberland County Historical Society. He will show with them again in the summer of 2010 at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Massachusetts, and
the Pennsylvania Governor's Residence. Both exhibitions will run concurrently.
His work has been exhibited at Gallery 30 in
Gettysburg, F.A.N. Gallery in Philadelphia, the Art Association of
Harrisburg, Gallery Blu, City Art Gallery in York, and many others. He recently enjoyed international exposure when one of his Cape Cod paintings was published in the June/July 2009
issue of "International Artist" as a finalist in a
world-wide competition.
He has recently been focusing on plein air efforts on Skyline
Drive in the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. A group of
these paintings debuted at Lynden Gallery in Elizabethtown this past
winter. One of these paintings was also part of the York Art
Associations's recent juried show. Another Skyline was in the
2009 Lebanon Valley College Annual Spring Juried
Exhibition - an earlier piece in the series was selected for the same
show in 2008. The Skyline series was recently selected for solo
exhibitions at the Montpelier Arts Center near Richmond VA in August of
2011 and the Delaplaine Visual Art Education Center
in Frederick MD in December of 2011.
