Artist’s Statement

of Jean Capron

My work is drawing, painting and printmaking.

I have been drawing since the age of three, at least.  Painting since high school, in oil starting in college. Began printmaking in 2009.

My college degree is in art history.  After years of working and travel, I went back to school in the mid-80’s, to art school and studied illustration, figure drawing, and painting. I was able to have a studio in my San Francisco apartment.  Started working as a contract painter for a needlepoint designer and soon started creating my own designs and selling them in SF and in shops around the country.  I continued this work for about ten years.  I really wanted to get back to oil painting though and had a studio now in Sausalito.  I took a course at the College of Marin in 2003.  In 2009 I returned to the College to learn printmaking.  I was mainly interested in etching and drypoint, but, as a beginner, learned also the basics or relief, collagraph, and monotype.  I stayed with printmaking at the College for five years (basically until I was ineligible to continue — IYKYK!)

My subject matter is mainly figurative, though still life is also very appealing to me. Anything, really.  My subjects are drawn mostly from the Greek, Egyptian and Sumerian mythology, the Hebrew scriptures, the cycle of Mary.