J.C. Airoldi earned her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. She led a successful career in commercial graphics for nearly 10 years – creating storyboards, character portraits, and special effects animation for several of the nation’s leading computer game companies before pursuing her lifelong dream of painting professionally in 2002. Armed with a knowledge of balance, scale, color harmony, and texture (the tools of both the painter and the designer), J.C. embarks on each painting as an individual journey. She feels that her paintings are the result of "taking the time" to experience the wonders she finds everywhere in nature. She strives to achieve in her paintings the feelings she has that transcend what the eye immediately records.
"I feel so fortunate to witness ordinary scenes made extraordinary by light and atmosphere... and then to set out to capture the spirit of my experience in my work. It is my life’s ambition to convey more than just the visual through my work, but to awaken the other senses as well...to rekindle and experience over and over again the smell of the salt air, the feel of warm sand grains slipping through my toes, the sound of reeds rustling in the wind. I want you to feel as I have felt; the motion of drifting clouds, first light creeping over the land, sparkles on the sea - serenity and contentment." -J.C. Airoldi