I paint what I love and also what inspires me. Mostly what I find beautiful. And what I have a connection to.
What I love and have a connection to is the following: The Louisiana bayous, wetlands, marshes, swamps, lakes, ponds, wildlife, waterfowl, herons, birds, flowers, fish, cypress trees, oak trees, moss, coastal areas, boats, fish and fishing, Cajun food and Cajun Culture, the beaches and coastal areas of the Florida Panhandle and coastal Miami. I have also branched out into doing portraits of homes, pets, and other heartfelt subjects a person wants captured in a customized commission. I have also started making notecards of my art and started China painting lessons.
Around 2009, I started getting prints and notecards made of my work and my wife Marie, created a website to market originals and reproductions. I wrote the following about at that time. Getting enough paintings for reproductions and a website was a major upgrade to my art journey.
Jeb Arcement grew up in Raceland, Louisiana located on Bayou Lafourche. His deep love and passion for wildlife began at six years old while hunting and fishing with his father and uncles. His love of wildlife art started in second grade when the teacher had the students painting birds during the occasional art period.
He also learned how to mount waterfowl from a correspondence course in the sixth grade. Jeb majored in Marine Biology at Nicholls State University. During this period, he took time off to work as a professional waterfowl taxidermist mounting thousands of ducks.
Getting more serious about painting led to taking lessons and a first-place ribbon with his first completed painting of a male wood duck. Although beginning as a waterfowl painter, his subject matter has expanded to encompass many more aspects of South Louisiana and beyond. The wood painting I entered in the contest. Painted around 1979.
Now a twenty-year veteran biology and environmental science schoolteacher, he sees more time for growing as an artist. Being a Certified Life Coach and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), he provides clients with effective methods for personal growth and transformation. When confronted with life’s inevitable challenges, these cutting-edge tools allow anyone to use limitations, pain and suffering as a magnificent doorway to expanded states of consciousness including beingness, peace, love, Okness and oneness. His first and foremost passion is the love of his life, beloved wife Marie, daughter Lexi.
The above was written around 2008 and After 25 years of teaching science and adapted PE, I retired in 2012. Since then I have had many wonderful blessing and some challenges, which many of were transformed into blessings.
So being retired and having dealt with the challenges now allows me to have much more time to devote to paining and ex[anding my art business. I am so thrilled to say the least!
One of the many things I am thrilled about is visiting Lake Martin near Breaux Bridge and about 30 minutes from my home. This place is so beautiful, and it is different every time I go do some photography. Below are three of the hundreds of photos I took at lake Martin.
I am also looking to explore other new areas near my home- including the Atchafalaya Spillway, the Rockefeller Wildlife refuge, Pecan Island, Pintail Drive and Boardwalk, the marsh areas below Delcambre, and the rice fields near Kaplan and Gueydan, for wintering waterfowl. I will be a kid in a candy store!