Jaime Byrd

CONTEMPORARY ART

Her work provokes a sense of imagination and story that are amplified by how many paintings come alive through beautifully augmented reality viewed through an app for mobile devices. The effect is to turn the dramatic colors of the static painting into a layered, playful, and surprising experience of movement and sound. Each piece has its own unique story that comes alive through this technique that combines the tradition of oil painting with the innovation of contemporary technology. ​
Jaime Working on a Wood Panel
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​“Connection” 18”x18” oil on wood
Her work provokes a sense of imagination and story that are amplified by how many paintings come alive through beautifully augmented reality viewed through an app for mobile devices. The effect is to turn the dramatic colors of the static painting into a layered, playful, and surprising experience of movement and sound. Each piece has its own unique story that comes alive through this technique that combines the tradition of oil painting with the innovation of contemporary technology. ​​
Jaime Byrd is a life-long artist, painter, and filmmaker beginning her study in the arts as a young child.  As a constant traveler who has filmed, photographed, and edited projects for decades, Jaime’s passion for the landscape, her instinct for the narrative, and her emotional response to color are foundational aspect of her unique paintings. She uses oil paint and cold wax to bring texture and contrast while lighting up the scene and the emotions of the viewer with the most vibrant colors. Each image is expansive in perspective, dramatic in color, and yet intimate in the details of place. The compositions offer a kind of drone-eyed view across an open landscape that takes your eye upward to the sky and downward into the layers below.

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​“Longing” 18”x18” oil on wood
​Jaime also creates movies from her paintings where a piece of artwork can come to life. By using Augmented Reality technology, one can view her movies with a cell phone or tablet and actively engage the art viewer. These movies tell an additional story using video, sound effects, music, and other digital and animated elements. 
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“Life of Trees” 18”x24” oil on wood
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