JIM SLOAN

Jim Sloan has spent a lifetime as an artist. He was only a child when, on the heels of WWII, he studied art in the atelier of the Master Yoshida Hiroshi in Tokyo. The layered richness of Japanese woodblock landscapes imprinted deep on his young mind. A longtime Galisteo resident, he paints the land and people where he lives. With pulsating lines and chaotic pointillism, his paintings defy the stillness of rock and mountains. Constructed of the same striated brushstrokes, both landscapes and portraits appear in the process of becoming. When he isn’t painting, Jim is kept busy as the local ‘snake man’, and he is prized in Galisteo for his calm charmed ways: when an unwelcome rattler takes up residence in a village property, Jim drops by in his truck, and gently picks up the reptile to drive it to friendlier lands.