Art and thoughts by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

This Speaks My Mind

  • New and improved!

    Dear Friends, I have just make upgrades to my websight RVJart.com including: Buy Now buttons to make online purchasing easier. A new Inventory page that includes painting details and close-up photos. A new Guest Book for you to leave comments. Please check it out!

  • The story of over 15,000 hits on RVJart.com!

    This week we have surpassed 15,000 hits on RVJart.com! I say we because it is all on you. I sincerely appreciate your support. This milestone leads me to this weeks subject, storytelling.  You may think that this is an odd subject for me to be presenting but bear with me. A few weeks ago my…

  • The Value of Art

    You are a lucky artist if the work that you create with passion is recognized and accepted by society as meaningful in some way during your lifetime…or ever. How does culture come to value art? By the way, you are culture, so the question is really how do you come to value art? I think…

  • Vermont Contemporary Traditions

    Never tell me that not one star of all That slip from heaven at night and softly fall Has been picked up with stones to build a wall… Robert Frost- “Star in a stoneboat” This series of paintings looks at the traditional New England stone wall in the forested landscape. These walls were built 200…

  • Sacred Sounds

    Do you have a sacred sound? A sound that you recognize as coming from the Spirit? A sound that touches your soul in a meaningful way? I sat next to a six year old in Meeting for Worship today. An hour more or less of silence. Of course Meeting for Worship is never silent. Each…