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Undulating hills under wide sky and clouds have long been Jeanne’s source of artistic inspiration. When home in upstate New York, she is inspired by the wind in trees. But when she crosses the ocean, it is the wide-open sky of the remote Scottish Orkney islands with its reflective lochs and the standing stones of the World Heritage Site that fulfill her. She first visited Orkney over 40 years ago while on a year’s Fulbright teaching exchange and expanded her art with a Scottish life.
In 2004, she began running a 10 day cultural immersion travel summer vacation art workshop that integrated the varied history and landscape of Orkney with learning the Provincetown Print technique. This success brought her to an early retirement with a new life including more time in Orkney teaching local Orcadians and numerous European visitors. She has been extremely successful in spreading watercolor white-line woodcuts, the only North American contribution to the art of printmaking, to the United Kingdom and has evolved into a unique variation from its 1915 beginnings. In addition to her “Orkney Woodcut” Jeanne also works with oil pigment sticks on large flat canvas and watercolours landscapes.
In 2011, while in Orkney, she began volunteering at the renowned archaeological site, the Ness of Brodgar and in 2018 was invited to be an artist in residence. Until its final season in August 2024, every July and August, she met the challenges of Orkney weather and neolithic structures with paintbrush and canvas, painting on the edge of the trenches and beside archaeologists from around the world.
Her large oils and archaeological paintings are part of numerous collections from university archaeology departments, libraries and private residences worldwide as well as in local venues in Kirkwall, Orkney. They have been used to support many exhibitions featuring the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney museums and the British Museum, London.
Jeanne attended Adelphi University working with artist Frances Avery, printmaker Milton Goldstein, and painter Richard Vaux.
With a grandparent’s summer house in West Saugerties, she was a young attendee at numerous Woodstock School of Art. Over thirty years ago, she began working with Staats Fasoldt and Pia Oste-Alexander at the Woodstock School of Art.
She continues to live and paint on both sides of the ocean maintaining homes and studios in West Saugerties and Stromness. Orkney is where she meets and sells to visitors from around the world. She is thrilled that as often as possible her artistic teaching path leads her back to where her love of watercolor white line woodcuts started, the Woodstock School of Art.
