Jeffrey T. Larson is a native of Minnesota's Twin Cities. As a child Jeff resolved to be an artist. Four years of intense study at Atelier Lack in Minneapolis were followed by museum study in the U.S. and abroad. Firmly grounded in the methods and materials of the Old Masters, he has adapted these techniques through his own imagination and perceptions.

In 1989 Jeff and Heidi Larson purchased a 7,500 square foot school in Northwest, Wisconsin. Emptied by declining enrollments, its high ceilings and spacious rooms seemed to them full of possibilities and challenges. They have converted these spaces into a unique studio and home, with plenty of room for painting and the raising of their three children, Brock, McKenzie and Sophia Rose.

Jeff's work is strongly connected to this remarkable home/studio setting. Just three miles south of the big lake, Superior, the winters are harsh, the power of nature evident. Light and color are strong, and the people who are their neighbors are richly interesting, their lives chronicled in the wonderful figures for which Jeff Larson is so appreciated.

His outdoor figures are splendid and bold, and capture moods and themes familiar to all of us. But for some it is his still lifes that enchant the most. It is often startling to come upon one of these-so simple and so right, so beautiful. He explains that he sees these works in abstract terms, as forms and lines and colors that are beautiful even before we recognize them as ordinary objects.