VACMA: Jeanne Bouza Rose – Visual Artist & Printmaker

“Experimenting with a mentor in the print studio and specifically working with a new mono-print technique for the both of us, released a new form of expression for me.  The types of marks I used in the print studio stayed inside me and found a way out onto canvas while I was painting on site at the Ness excavation. Plein air and oil painting is different from inking up plates in the print studio, but like my print studio work, there was an evolution of mark making and I ended up using a limited palette as I had done in the print studio.

While the time I spent at the dig, kept me from returning to the print studio, the oil paintings I finished on the dig site, took me to a new place of expression using mixed media and limited palette choice.  I found a new muse that I am thrilled to have discovered.

Without the award, I would not have funded a print mentor and much more of my time in the print studio would have been about figuring out how to work things.  This way, we went straight to work and creation.

Taking the online abstraction workshops also led me to other ways to express marks and shapes and to feel freer with using more diverse materials.  By the end, my final paintings had oil paint, pigmented charcoal, charcoal and graphite integrated onto the canvas and I was having fun!”

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