Jeanean is a full-time painter and a professional musician. Art and music go hand in hand and compliment each other. She is very active in the arts community with portrait and life drawing groups and conducts plein-air workshops locally in the Mid-Atlantic area and internationally. Plein air workshops abroad include Ireland, England, France and Germany. In June 2012 Maine will be the workshop destination.  September 2012 she will return to one of her favorite places Ghost Ranch in Abiquii and Taos New Mexico for the third time.   She has taught painting and drawing at The Delaplaine Visual Arts Center , Rockville Arts Place, Hood College, Montgomery College and a 17 year span of teaching every summer at Common Ground on the Hill at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD. Jeanean is constantly striving to improve and refine her skills and looks forward to her next one person show focusing on work done in New Mexico.

ARTIST STATEMENT:“In my work, I try to empathize with the retinal image, to try to find a connection in creating a “felt” sense of structure, form and value. I am a very tonal painter and utilize the value structure to create a sense of drama.I always begin very gestural and loose; trying to get at the inner structure first to re-create the movement inside the form. My marks are results of a building process; strokes building form, creating a sense of depth and three-dimensionality. Color is introduced sometimes gently, inviting the thin washes to come into play or attacking the elusive momentary light condition with alla-prima painting. The thick and juicy stuff of paint is what I love and hope to preserve on the surface. I work towards a contrast of subtle passages with soft tones or rich glazes and strong direct painting continuously building, refining and reducing the image to its essential core."My working method for the landscapes is to paint en plein-air. The small to medium sized works are done alla prima with very little change once brought into the studio. I do make some adjustments and additions but am very cautious not to lose the "freshness" from direct observation. They are "moments in time". I will sometimes return to the same place and the same time of day and weather conditions to continue working on a larger plein-air piece on consecutive days. I have been known to drag really large canvasses out of doors and work on site. I do still enjoy doing that because of the energy in the mark from a direct connection to the "physical experience" that is sometimes lost when working in the studio I also work in the studio from smaller plein-air paintings to create more formal and much larger interpretations. I use my sketchs and photographs for referencing but only after working on the site and being familiar with the landscape can I successfully interpret the forms and especially the color correctly. There is no substitute for actually "being there". The challenge is to keep the same energy and fluid mark that sparked the first impression.

EDUCATION:1975-1980: B.F.A. Cum laude in Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. . 1972-1974: Prince Georges Community College, Largo Md.

TEACHING AND RELATED HONORS:

2012: Griffin Art Center -  Plein Air Painting in the Park

Common Ground on the Hill at McDaniel College - Basic Drawing

201l: Selected for Teaching Studios of Art Plein Air Competition at Sagamore Hill,  Exhibition at the Sagamore Hill Oyster Bay Historical Society at the Koenig Center Gallery

2010 Plein air workshops in France May 17-30, New Mexico Sep. 20-30th

2009: Common Ground on the Hill at McDaniel College: week long Plein-air workshop. Private workshops: THREE DAYS - THREE FARMS, completed. PLEIN-AIR NEW MEXICO

2008: Plein air workshops, Ireland, Charleston SC, Tybee Island, GA,

2008-95: Common Ground on the Hill at McDaniel College taught painting and drawing

2007: Plein air workshops Chincoteague Island, Va, Harpers Ferry, WV

2006: Conducts “plein air” landscape workshops on site. Private and group lessons. Monitor for portrait and life drawing groups.

2005: Artist-in-Residence: I-Park, East Haddam, Connecticut

2000: Montgomery College, Rockville, MD. Basic painting. Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD. Basic painting, Drawing, Pastel

1996-97: Hood College. Landscape Painting1997-93: Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD. Basic Drawing, , Life Drawing

1993-95: Montgomery County Adult Education & Recreation Department: Drawing/Painting  Artist-in-Residence: Hood College

EXHIBITIONS

2012:   The Griffin Art Center, Frederick MD Faculty Exhibition

VisArts in Rockville, MD 4-peson show "Here's Looking At You"

Quiet Waters Park - Group Invitational

CGOH Faculty Exhibition Rice Gallery McDaniel College, Westminster, MD

2011 Group Invitational "American Landscapes" MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD2010

Hagerstown Fine Arts Museum, Maryland Society of Portrait Painters

2009: Arts Barn Portrait Group Show: June CGOH Faculty Exhibition: Rice Gallery, McDaniel College, Westminster, MD July

2008: CGOH Faculty Exhibition: Rice Gallery, McDaniel College, Westminster, MD

2007: Group Invitational: Carroll County Arts Center “Lay of the Land”

2006: Solo Exhibition: “Landscapes & Figures” Carroll Community College, Westminster, MD2006: CGOH, Faculty Exhibition: Rice Gallery, , McDaniel College, Westminster

 2005: Solo Exhibition: I-Park, East Haddam, CT2004-1995: Solo and two person exhibits annually: Artist Gallery, Frederick, MD

1995: Group Exhibition: Ximo43, Basel, Switzerland 1994: Faculty Exhibition: Rockville Arts Place1993: Solo Exhibition: Sugar & Frichtl Gallery, Kensington, MD

1992: Group Invitational “Free State” Maryland Artist, Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD

1991: Solo Exhibition: Rossig’s Frame Shop, New Market, MD Group Exhibition: Handwork’s Gallery, Kensington, MD

1990: Group Exhibition: Gaithersburg Fine Arts Association (juried show, 2nd place) Group Exhibition: Germantown Art League, Germantown, MD “Two Friends” Jefferson Plaza, Rockville, MD

1989: Solo Exhibition: Frame World, Bethesda, MD

1985: Alumni Exhibition: Prince George’s Community College

NEW AFFILIATIONS :

2012:  The Griffin Art Center - New Studio Space/ Instructor

2011: Portrait Society of America ,   Maryland Federation of Art

2009: The Maryland Society of Portrait Painters

2009: Oil Painters of America