Jonde Northcutt, About the Artist

JONDE NORTHCUTT is a 4th generation Californian who grew up in Coronado, California. She is a printmaker, illustrator, graphic and mixed media artist.

Jonde graduated from Chapman University (Orange, CA) with a BA in Sociology and Fine Art. She completed her MA in Art from California State University Fulllerton with focus in Graphic Design & Illustration. She furthered her education traveling three worldwide semesters aboard Semester at Sea, the world's preeminent shipboard program for global study abroad.

Jonde’s work begins with the act of collecting, both in the tangible sense and also in memory. Laden with symbols and poetic metaphor, she uses objects and imagery to layer, mark or imply metaphors. The result being an amalgam of the planned and spontaneous. Treading the line between abstraction and representation, her art intertwines elements of realism, a reverence for nature, layered with hints of geometric and architectural references.

My studio houses hundreds of rubber stamps, fabrics collected from travels in Africa and India, vintage hand-written journals, photographs and reclaimed prints. I draw, paint, sew, illustrate, collage, hammer, burn, and wrap wire. I am drawn to create a personal narrative between the stories I find embedded in these objects and my own memories. Our lives have ephemeral moments when surroundings take on a certain re-focus and altered wonder. An experience or location may be the catalyst. I attempt to visually touch, interpret and portray these fleeting magical taps in time, and to decide at which point to freeze the elusive 'visual'.

 My work is focused on the exploration of perceptions and experiences, physical and metaphysical landscapes and the balance between forms and layers of spatial elements. Familiar sites become enigmatic structures. To re-assemble these aspects, to mask and unmask, and to create a wholeness from each integral part is my visual poetry.

Jonde and her husband, the painter, printmaker and glass artist Nick Capaci, share a studio in Orange County, CA. They are founders and directors of Bluestone Editions (fine art printmaking atelier). Jonde and Nick are pioneers in the instruction of monotype and water based intaglio (etching). When Jonde is not working on painting and printmaking, she can be found creating illustrations for book covers and jewelry design.

Jonde is represented in public and private collections including 20th Century Fox, Boeing Corporation, Canon, Doral Golf Resort, Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa, Hewlett-Packard, Hilton Hotels, J. Paul Getty Museum, Kaiser Hospital, Merrill Chase, Monaco Hotels, Nordstrom , Northern Trust Bank, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Manufacturers Bank, and First Interstate Bank.

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About the Artist

JONDE NORTHCUTT is a 4th generation Californian who grew up in Coronado, California. She is a printmaker, illustrator, graphic and mixed media artist.

Jonde graduated from Chapman University (Orange, CA) with a BA in Sociology and Fine Art. She completed her MA in Art from California State University Fulllerton with focus in Graphic Design & Illustration. She furthered her education traveling three worldwide semesters aboard Semester at Sea, the world's preeminent shipboard program for global study abroad.

Jonde’s work begins with the act of collecting, both in the tangible sense and also in memory. Laden with symbols and poetic metaphor, she uses objects and imagery to layer, mark or imply metaphors. The result being an amalgam of the planned and spontaneous. Treading the line between abstraction and representation, her art intertwines elements of realism, a reverence for nature, layered with hints of geometric and architectural references.

My studio houses hundreds of rubber stamps, fabrics collected from travels in Africa and India, vintage hand-written journals, photographs and reclaimed prints. I draw, paint, sew, illustrate, collage, hammer, burn, and wrap wire. I am drawn to create a personal narrative between the stories I find embedded in these objects and my own memories. Our lives have ephemeral moments when surroundings take on a certain re-focus and altered wonder. An experience or location may be the catalyst. I attempt to visually touch, interpret and portray these fleeting magical taps in time, and to decide at which point to freeze the elusive 'visual'.

 My work is focused on the exploration of perceptions and experiences, physical and metaphysical landscapes and the balance between forms and layers of spatial elements. Familiar sites become enigmatic structures. To re-assemble these aspects, to mask and unmask, and to create a wholeness from each integral part is my visual poetry.

Jonde and her husband, the painter, printmaker and glass artist Nick Capaci, share a studio in Orange County, CA. They are founders and directors of Bluestone Editions (fine art printmaking atelier). Jonde and Nick are pioneers in the instruction of monotype and water based intaglio (etching). When Jonde is not working on painting and printmaking, she can be found creating illustrations for book covers and jewelry design.

Jonde is represented in public and private collections including 20th Century Fox, Boeing Corporation, Canon, Doral Golf Resort, Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa, Hewlett-Packard, Hilton Hotels, J. Paul Getty Museum, Kaiser Hospital, Merrill Chase, Monaco Hotels, Nordstrom , Northern Trust Bank, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Manufacturers Bank, and First Interstate Bank.