{"id":868749,"date":"2026-10-02T22:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868749\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T22:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:48:20","slug":"inside-jobbing-muse-in-tow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868749\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Jobbing, Muse in Tow"},"content":{"rendered":"

What interior life meets an atmosphere of interiority at the Architectural Foundation Gallery, presently. More to the point, the exhibition What Remains marks the meeting of sensitive indoors-oriented painter Ella Jennings and woodworker Don Scott, whose work spans the domains of form and function. Together, a common resonance is the happy result in this unique gallery space \u2014 which, incidentally, is a welcoming interior itself.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cChapel of Dreams\u201d by Ella Jennings | Photo: Courtesy<\/p>\n

The title What Remains relates to a commonality of practice in their work, however otherwise disparate. Jennings paints on salvaged wood. Scott creates his polished wood pieces from salvaged wood from dead trees and felled branches, mostly from around the region \u2014 including the very property hosting the show.<\/p>\n

Jennings, a Westmont-trained artist who also worked in the Ridley-Tree Museum of Art there for a time, has created a body of small oil-on-wood paintings, some of a postcard scale, which invite us to lean in for close scrutiny. Many of the paintings bask in the calm spirit and quietude of interiors and in often older, wood-endowed houses. The wood aspect then has an echo across the room, where Scott\u2019s elegant wooden bowls and vessels are displayed on small shelves \u2014 although the pieces are ultimately table-suitable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Warm hues, textures and angles prevail in Jennings\u2019s work, and her rooms are sans actual figures, but sometimes suggest inhabitants in absentia, as in \u201cWe Two.\u201d Christian\/spiritual essences and symbolism can be inferred, though never explicitly, as in \u201cMeans of Understanding\u201d and \u201cChapel of Dreams,\u201d built from the perspective of peering through doors to other rooms, other realms.<\/p>\n

Specific features define some of the compositions, seen in the tripartite, trinity themed \u201cUplift,\u201d based on three window forms, and the self-explanatory \u201cThree Doors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cUplift\u201d by Ella Jennings 2026 | Photo: Courtesy<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cBones\u201d by Ella Jennings | Photo: Courtesy<\/p>\n

Jennings also ventures outside into nature, with the deep-focus branch study \u201cBones,\u201d and a rare venture into the realm of the surreal, with her Magritte-y image of an illogically placed lighthouse and enveloping sky, \u201cJumping Off Place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Literally coming down to earth, Scott\u2019s component in the exhibition celebrates its own juggling of form and function and, in a deep conceptual way, bows to the majesty and mutability of wood as material and natural source. Those wood sources are drawn from specific places and environmental situations around the area, including the ragged-edged olive from Lotusland and the Evergreen Pear resourcefully lifted from a deceased tree just outside the back door of the Architectural Foundation. Another rough-rimmed ironbark eucalyptus bowl was fashioned from wood borrowed from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cManzanite Burl,\u201d El Capitan Sherpa fire by Don Scott | Photo: Courtesy\"\"\u201cIronbark Eucalyptus,\u201d Natural History Museum by Don Scott | Photo: Courtesy<\/p>\n

A manzanita burl gives life to the ravaged tree life from the El Capitan \u201cSherpa\u201d fire zone, while another bowl was sourced from lodgepole pine from the Eastern Sierra.<\/p>\n

What Remains amounts to an intriguing inside-outside marshalling of creative forces and visions, in two and three-dimensions, with nature \u2014 and the actual and metaphorical nature of space \u2014 at its dual center of attentions.<\/p>\n

What Remains by Don Scott and Ella Jennings is on view at the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara (229 E. Victoria St.) through November 7. There will be an Artist Talk on Saturday, October 10, at 2 p.m. See afsb.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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