"I love to paint
drawing from
imagination,
to show the way a
person, place or other
subject feels,
and try not to paint the
same way twice."
eric jonsson
pacific heights
san francisco, california
usa
2025
backstory
Once upon a time with just $850 to his name, Jonsson moved from California to Manhattan, where excellent professors at School of Visual Arts (SVA) taught him to paint and draw realistically.
But the process of painting realistically became too tight, so as crazy as this might sound, he left Realism behind. Matisse and Picasso, originally Realists, did the same.
He became a commissioned artist in Manhattan and later moved to San Francisco where he continues to find patrons who love his Art and who get why....
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