Abstract.
     Those two words best describe Jeff's growing body of artwork.
     Jeff has shown his work at various galleries in the Twin Cities and his recent painting "Peaceful Side of Insanity" was used in the filming of the movie "Factotum." Based on the story of author Charles Bukowski's life, "Factotum" stars Matt Dillion and competed in the Cannes International Film Festival in France in 2005 and Sundance Film Festival in 2006. It opened in North American theaters in August 2006.
     Much of Jeff's' recent artwork was created while living in Minneapolis and New Market, MN. But he, his wife Tammy, daughter Maya and pets recently made the move to northwest Arkansas. he has always created hsi paintings, drawings and sculptures out of his home studios.
     Jeff draws a great deal of inspiration from draws a great deal of his inspiration from his new quiet surroundings, close friends and the music of such artists as Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Meat Beat Manifesto, Joy Division and Brian Eno. A nature enthusiast, Jeff has also found a great deal of inspriation in the nearby Ozark mountains.
     In addition, Jeff collaborates on several projects with his good friend, Arizona artist Doug Tolf. They held their first collaborative showing, an experimental poetry/art venture titled "Words with Vision," at Alwun House in Phoenix, AZ in November 2002. They have also started developing an idea for an illustrated children's book.

     Tolf has been the most influential person in the development of Jeff's astract artwork. The two have developed a unique artistic bond that stretches far beyond what they put down on canvas. Many of those influential moments will be recounted in Jeff's ongoing writing project, "Tides and Moonbeams." It all started with a large man making cow sounds on the sands of a man-made beach in Ottawa, Illinois ... and continued to get more and more bizarre from that point forward.

     Most recently, Jeff has begun to dabble with a new style, inspired by watching his two-year-old daughter Maya draw. Watching Maya reminded Jeff of a quote he had once seen by Picasso. It went something like this: "I spent the first 18 years of my life trying to draw like an adult and the rest of it figuring out how to draw like a child again." Jeff is fascinated by the freedom and spontenaiety a child draws with. There are no limitations, lessons or anything taken into account. There are very few, if any, barriers. And that's what art is all about. So, Jeff has started to draw iin that same style, in an atempt to find that same level of freedom - or at least as much of it as possible. Some of those drawings are posted at the bottom of the "Jeff's Artwork" page on this website.

     Jeff's artwork and is the result of his abstract exploration of feelings, emotion, consciousness, music and the earth.
     Mores, a Chicago area native, spent his first 2-1/2 years of college as a studio art major at Millikin University in Decatur, IL, where he focused mainly on painting, drawing and metal sculpture. He eventually transferred to Columbia College-Chicago, where he majored in journalism.