Monthly Newsletter Archive: 20201
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Browse Jeannine’s archive of monthly creations below.
December 2021
“Still Delicious”
19" x 26"
Venetian Lime Plaster, Lake Pigments, and Copper Oxide, on Paper
My paintings sometimes float memories of a familiar object or scape. However, I do not begin with an idea and later abstract it. More important to me are the relationships forged between the materials and myself as layers merge and sometimes peel away.
Ready to hibernate?
November 2021
“Artless”
26" x 26"
Venetian Lime Plaster, Japanese Indigo,Cocheneal Tempera, Acrylics and Chalk Paint on Eucaliptus Board
"Without guile" is the change of November's color charm as it moves into winter's cool blues and shakes the trees bare.
Everything changes and I am in love still.
October 2021
“Winterfylleth”
12 " x 12"
Venetian Lime Plaster, Japanese Indigo, Red Iron Oxide, and Acrylics on Gessoed Cardboard
In the language of change there is a struggle.
I have been frustrated with this lately, especially in my art making.
But today I do not feel frustrated with my frustration.
白髪抜く 枕の下や きりぎりす
I pull out the gray hairs
And under my pillow
There is a cricket
~ Matsuo Basho ~
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"Winterfylleth" - the archaic name for October - "winter full moon" - in the old 2 season calandar October's first full moon marked the beginning of winter and was a celebrated transition
September 2021
“INTERTWINED”
22 " x 30"
Venetian Lime Plaster, Japanese Indigo, Red Iron Oxide, Copper Oxide, and Cochineal, on Handmade Cotton Rag from India
This painting merges a world of materials. Minerals and ores from beneath the earth dance with botanicals and bugs from above the earth.
Air and water are also present as an essential and consistent part of my art making process.
"There is no such thing as inanimate matter"
~ Jay DeFeo, Jay DeFeo and The Rose
August 2021
“The Sound of Your Breath”
3 ' x 5 '
Lime Plaster, Indigo, Acrylic Paint, Chalk Paint, Saffron, Iron Oxide, and Ash on Canvas
"Everything has both yin and yang in it-
And from their rise-and-fall-coupling comes new life."
The Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu, 4th century BCE
July 2021
“Kami”
20" x 48"
Lime Plaster, Indigo, Copper Oxide, Iron Oxide and Chalk Paint on Board
Darkness and light, intertwined. The swirling and cascading energy of all life, Kami
This painting is part of a collection of my paintings that will be displayed at the Knox Mansion in Buffalo, NY in August and September for the biannual Decorators Showhouse.
June 2021
“Chalk Sculpture”
"0 X 0"
“Shadow Movement”
"0 X 0"
I am assembling temporary sculptures that degrade and photographing them in their many stages of disintegration. Parallel to this, I am documenting the shadows of more permanent sculptures, appearing and disappearing, in the changing light on my walls.
"AERY CREATIONS" - not to be confused with airy nothings -
May 2021
“Spring in the Underworld”
"20 X 42"
Heritage Bristol board, copper and iron oxides, mixed whites, and marigold ink
I was thinking about cherry blossoms when i painted this, an embryonic vibration beneath the surface of sight - an eternal Spring in motion.
Still chilly in Buffalo. Still warm inside.
April 2021
“A Wave is Made of Water”
"36 X 42" — Cardboard stabalized with gesso, indigo, saffron, copper oxide, vanilla acrylic,and white gouache, flecks of gold
I am almost finished writing my thesis paper for my Masters degree in Fine Arts. I am out of words today!
Thinking of Spring, thinking of you.
March 2021
“Primal”
36 x 39 with cherry wood frame
The painting above is part of my new exhibition, "The Floating World", opening March 12 and running through April 22 at BAM in Buffalo. Visit my website at Jmullan.net to see the complete collection.
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If you are in Buffalo come and see my work in person. It is filled with textural surprises and celebration.
February 2021
“This Floating World”
Panel of eight 12 x 12 wood blocks
From my upcoming exhibition of the same title at BAM (Buffalo Art Movement)
In winter I pause and remember our endless beginning. It does not matter that the layers of my belief are thick with time. I can see my breath!
January 2021
“Earth and Ocean, Water and Ice”
Within the I Ching, an ancient Chinese manuscript of change, is a section called the "Tao of I". It posits that extremes, as they peak, become their opposites.
It speaks to hope in the darkness that always gives way to sunshine. It also reminds me that light rests in the night.
Resolved in 2021, I will remind myself not to affirm darkness by rejecting it.