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BoldBrush Recommends: Jeanne Rosier Smith
Biography
"No foolproof recipe exists for making a successful painting. But the slight adjustments a master painter makes mean the difference between good and wonderful. Listening to Massachusetts pastelist Jeanne Rosier Smith describe her process, and examining her work is reminiscent of learning from a master chef. Basic rules are being followed, but crucial adjustments push the project into the sublime."
-Bob Bahr, PLEIN AIR MAGAZINE, JULY 2022.
My paintings are a visceral response to the world. A flip in the stomach, an intake of breath sparks the work. My process relies on instinct. Dissolving and blending colors, creating vibrations with layered pigments reflects a balance of heart and mind working toward a moment of joy.
Painting in pastel is a sensory experience. Hundreds of colored sticks spread before me, each with its own texture, weight and feel. My arm becomes my brush, and I paint with direct touch, creating soft glazes or juicy impasto strokes with pressure shifts or the touch of a fingertip. I paint to awaken the senses, hear the ocean's roar, feel the wind, taste the salt air, smell the scent of the sun on blossoms. It's beautiful out there, and we are alive.
Jeanne Rosier Smith, b. 1966, grew up painting and after earning a PhD in English, switched gears and began her full-time art career at age 35 when she began painting in pastel and fell in love with the medium.
Jeanne now spends most of her time painting in and around the beautiful New England area where she lives, and along the coastal areas that inspire her work. An avid swimmer with lots of beach vacation memories, Jeanne feels a deep affinity for the ocean. These two factors combined make seascapes a recurring theme and continuing source of inspiration. Hours spent riding ocean waves give her familiarity and comfort with the movement of ocean water and an enduring fascination with it. Her recent large-scale ocean series brings the raw power and beauty of crashing waves into life-size scale, engulfing the viewer with thundering
Jeanne credits most of her art training to the workshops and classes she taught for twenty years, in her home studio, nationwide and internationally until 2019. She now offers a full ongoing online video instruction program through EpiphanyFineArt.com.
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