Art and thoughts by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

This Speaks My Mind

  • En Plein Air

    The difference between painting in the studio and painting out-of-doors is like standing in a bathroom shower and standing naked in the rain… in both instances you get wet, but it is a totally different sensory experience. En Plein Air is a painting that I am in the process of working on  and look forward…

  • Printemps

    One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.                              Aldo Leopold On the first day of Spring this year we had 18″ of snow on the ground here in Vermont, hence this painting, Spring Mist. To celebrate Spring in all its moods, I…

  • In the pulpit…

      I shall…state only one more effort to prove the objective reality of the spiritual world. For, honestly, all these arguments leave me cold. Even if they were sound- and none of them is watertight- they would only quiet my intellectual questionings. They would never motivate me to absolute dedication to Him for whom I…

  • Meet Jane Katherine

    Meet Jane Katherine. She is my Mother. I painted this portrait of her based on a photo taken in 1947. She, at that time, was a tender 18 years of age. This was before her marriage to my Father. Eleven years before I was born. While painting this portrait I had many existential thoughts about…

  • Suchness and Spirit

    Suchness is an interesting word. It comes to us from Buddhism and means; the true nature of things or ultimate reality. This word gets at the heart of what motivates me to create art. My attempt to render the suchness or spirit in creation. The way that nature and Spirit (or God) are related has a…