An abstract painting that is mostly blue, with a white thin tree trunk with branches in the middle. Below the blue paint is mostly black, and next to the blue paint is white and yellow paint., Jef Gunn; Chippewa River; 1993; 53 1/4x48 3/4; encaustic on wood, Jef Gunn is a painter, printmaker and sometimes sculptor, who has worked in Portland, Oregon. Gunn attends to the relationship between consciousness and the phenomenal world, expressed in simple large forms of Nature drawn from memory of experience in wilderness and urban environs, concentrated into shapes, text, pattern and signs. 'I don't know if I care much about self expression. In relation to the wilderness or the city, what is a self? Art is mind revealing mind.', info@jefgunn.com, http://www.jefgunn.com, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture