Jai Cochran
Landscape Paintings of Texas and the American West

BIOGRAPHY

           Jai Cochran (pronounced like Jay) is a painter and photographer living in Austin, Texas. He has been a landscape architect and small town newspaper publisher, and lived in Georgia, Tennessee, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.  He moved to Austin in 2006.

            As a landscape architect in San Antonio, Texas he designed the grounds of the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi. While living in Mexico he photographed and produced the travelogue "A Video Postcard from San Miguel de Allende," as well as giving public photography lectures. A sometime painter, in 2001 he discovered the advantages of painting from his own digital photographs and took up painting in oils full time. He has since expanded to watercolor and acrylics.

               Jai is also the author of the forthcoming Kindle novel Speak the Truth and Fear No Man.

EDUCATION

Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, BA

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, MLA

AFFILIATIONS

Docent, Blanton Museum of Art

Member: Austin Visual Arts Association, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin Museum of Art, Mexic-Arte