Jacqua Schmich
Artist

Although Colorado and New Mexico landscapes are Jacqua's first love, she paints other subjects, including florals, still life, wild life and farm animals. She especially loves to paint scenes from around the Estes Park and Rocky Mountain Park "I am always working to capture light and color in a realistic way, but leaning toward impressionism." When people comment ,' I know that place, I can feel it' Then I have hit the mark." Her work has been shown in numerous one woman and group shows throughout the region.

Jacqua lives and works in Loveland, Colorado, an art friendly town which is one of the leading art towns in Colorado. Jacqua is represented in Estes Park by Snowfire, a unique mountain gallery, located in the historic Old Church Shops, 157 W. Elkhorn Avenue, P.O. Box 537, Estes Park, CO 80517.

Jacqua has been developing as an artist since childhood in Nebraska. Moving to Colorado in 1965 her interest in art turned to fascination with the spectacular beauty of the Rocky Mountains.

Her success as a plein air painter was aided through study with well known artists such as Ray Vinella, Clyde Aspevig, Ted Goerschner, Joyce Pike, Sharon Hultz, Skip Whitcomb, Irby Brown, Kevin McPherson and Lu Haskew, to name a few. A value Jacqua works toward is to continuously improve her abilities and creative expression.

Jacqua prefers to begin paintings on location with a quick study. She then completes the painting in her home studio in Loveland, Colorado. "Painting outdoors is not always a picnic," she says. "Sometimes it is hot or cold. Windy. Bugs and bees. Easels blow over. Changing light from passing clouds. Still, outdoor painting is the key to better art. There is no other way to capture the light, mood and visual impact of your subject."

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