Jacob Smigle is an award winning Artist, taking 3rd place in last year’s Calgary Stampede Creative Arts and Crafts. His focus is on expressive portraiture and figurative work. Doing commissions in oil, graphite, and charcoal. In his spare time he works on personal work which has been mostly inspired by his family. His greatest source of inspiration has been having children. He’s constantly working on pieces based on them.
Jacob Smigle
Van Gogh Master Study
John Lennon
Abigail
Dad and Me
Rocky
“Precision has always been a fascination. My works are created entirely from memory, which is unfortunate, because my memory of what a human body looks like is apparently a circle on top with five lines coming out of it.
Through my process I develop original interpretations of the world around me. By simplifying and reducing, I can showcase the essential truth of any subject — that at its core, everything can be expressed in five lines or fewer. My loop-da-loops demonstrate a mastery of the continuous curve. My snowflakes contain multitudes.
So, as you can no doubt tell, I am an artist. Maybe? Probably... Yes, probably.”
— ARTISTS STATEMENT