Jules Worthington
Chilmark artist Jules S. Worthington, an accomplished artist, first
came to Martha's Vineyard in the late 40's, where he took up residence
in 1956, the same year he graduated cum laude from Tabor Academy. The
rest of his formal education includes graduating cum laude from Trinity
College in Hartford, Connecticut, with a B.A. degree in art. In 1966 he
received a MFA degree from the University of Hawaii. studying with
Kenneth Kingreyh, Norman Ives and Edward Stasack.
The next 4
years Jules worked as a freelance designer in graphic arts and
exhibition design. In 1967 he decided that the most rewarding and
fulfilling approach to art would be as a creative artist, which over
the next 38 years took expression in printmaking, drawing, abstract
painting, kinetic sculpture, shaped canvas painting, op art,
photography, portrait and landscape painting.
Jules's
work can be found in many private and corporate collections and has had
shows in Honolulu, Los Angeles, Conn, Boston, Virgin Gorda BVI and
Martha's Vineyard.
For Jules life is a
continual learning experience, which is directly reflected in the quest
of the creative artist to express the free human spirit. The artist who
sits on the "Golden Egg" is creatively dead. The humbling experience of
standing before nature with her subtle variations and beauty presents
both excitement and the challenge to always be a student of nature.
Excited and passionate about the impressionist style of painting. Jules
enrolled in a workshop at the Cape Cod School of Art in September of
1995. The school is dedicated to the rich legacy of the American
Impressionist Tradition as founded by Charles Hawthorne in 1899 and his
philosophies and theories about color have flourished through the
teachings of his successors Henry Henche and present director, Lois
Griffel. These teachings encompass the enlightening perception about
capturing the radiance of nature's light as color in art by exploring
the use of pure color to express the effects and quality of light. In
May of 1996 Jules attended a plein-air landscape painting workshop in
Greece and another in 1999, Aix en Provence, France and in May of 2000
Cortona, Italy as well as Venice.
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