Mott Jordan

Jordan spent his school years in Berkeley, California, and began creating drawings and watercolors at the age of four. He studied fine art and technical drawing beginning in junior high. In high school, he was awarded as one of twelve finalist artists in a Bay Area-wide high school student pen-and-ink competition.

Jordan went on to study studio art at UC Santa Cruz, specializing in oil painting and printmaking. Early influences include the work of Max Beckmann, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele, Paul Gauguin, Georgio de Chirico, Mimmo Paladino, Heironymous Bosch, Diego Velazquez, Rembrandt, Rogier van der Weyden, Giotto, and many others. Additionally, his work is heavily influenced by circus sign-painter art, American pop culture, 1960s album-cover psychedelia, Japanese Anim, Marvel and DC comics, underground comix, and much more.