Jack O'Rourke

Jack O'Rourke lives and paints on the northern California coast. An MFA graduate of Vermont College, he works in watercolor and acrylics, and also in charcoal, soft pastels, and oil pastels. Jack’s technique and style are influenced by artists Alex Powers, Don Andrews, and Charles Reid in figurative work, and owe much to early sixties’ plein air workshops with Bill Zacha of Mendocino. 


The nude figure is a favorite subject, mostly done in realism, but occasionally whimsical, as pop art or manga art. Other paintings include plein air, rugged coastline vistas found near his home, close to Manchester Beach and the sand dunes. His paintings occasionally revisit scenes collected in sketching journals from work and travels abroad as a civil engineer. His paintings have earned awards at a number of exhibits, and are included in private collections.

Printmaking is another enjoyable, change-of-pace art form, using his sliding table art press, and the carved relief block or intaglio processes. 
 


orourke@mcn.org

j-e-orourke.com