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Jennifer Francis Fearon

About The Artist

Artist Statement

Our modern world can move jarringly quickly, bombarding the senses with images, conflicting information and ideas.  I make art slowly as a counterweight to our expedited cultural moment, honoring serene simplicity.  In the interplay of light with water or  in the compelling  patterns in nature, we feel an essential truth: We are of the natural world, not separate from it.  In this knowledge, our humanity is restored.

I began to explore the use of natural art materials in order to further express the values of ecology, sustainability, and physical connection to the earth in my work. These include natural inks, plant dyes, minerals and metals.  In a mineral pigment painting system, gauzy layers of color are built up with pigments of varying particle sizes.  These materials express nature based subjects in just the way I see them:  luminous and poetic.

Drawing from my experience in western watercolor and oil painting, I  use mineral pigments in combination with other materials to create unique contemporary imagery.  I find making paint with my fingers from natural clay, plant dye and rocks to be a lovely ritual.  I touch the materials from the earth to create imagery about deep connection to place.  The process is tactile, meditative and meaningful.  It is slow art that includes earth, time and much of the maker’s hand in every piece.

Biography

Jennifer Francis Fearon is a visual artist working in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Her paintings have been shown at Arts Benicia, Santa Cruz Art League, Palo Alto Art Center, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sausalito Art Center, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts and Still Point Arts Quarterly.  Her work is concerned with our connection to the natural world. Jennifer’s kinship with nature began in childhood when she escaped to the woods near her Houston home to find a quiet place to read and draw.  The solace found there created a sense of place outdoors that informs her today.  Hot summers spent in and near the water provided hours of observing light refracting in pools, lakes and the ocean.  Two years living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as a teenager led to her interest in Asian aesthetics and spiritual philosophies.  These experiences, combined with those of a full and curious life, have evolved into a daily art practice that calls attention to beauty as both a healing truth and a call to action.  Jennifer works in Marin County, California where she has lived for 30 years, making art, raising a family and participating in community based non-profit organizations.   Jennifer’s formal art instruction began with two years at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.  She has taken printmaking workshops at Crown Point Press in San Francisco and studied with various artists, including, Cindy Miracle,  Randall Sexton and Chester Arnold in the Bay Area and Judith Kruger in Connecticut.

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4153286431

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Exhibitions & Press

Group Exhibitions

2023  O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA, Juried Exhibition

2023  Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA, Juried Exhibition

2022 O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA, Juried Exhibition

2021   Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, Juried Exhibition

2021   Santa Cruz Art League Annual Landscape Show, Santa Cruz, CA, Juried Exhibition

2021   Arts Benicia, Benicia CA, Juried Exhibition

2021   Still Point Arts, Quarterly, Fall 2021, Issue No. 43, Juried Exhibition in Print

2021   O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley,      CA, Juried Exhibition

2021   Still Point Arts Quarterly, Summer 2021, Issue No.42, Juried Exhibition in Print

2021   Still Point Arts Quarterly, Spring 2021, Issue No. 41, Juried Exhibition in Print.

2020  Arts Benicia, Benicia CA, Juried Exhibition

2020   Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, Juried Exhibition

2020   Opulent Mobility,  Altadena, CA,  Juried Exhibition

2020   Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA, Juried Exhibition

2018  Best in Show, Marin County Fair, San Rafael CA, Juried Exhibition

2017  Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA, Juried Exhibition

Publications

2023 Still Point Arts Quarterly, Spring 2023, Issue No. 49, Juried Exhibition in Print

2021   Still Point Arts, Quarterly, Fall 2021, Issue No. 43, Juried Exhibition in Print

2021   Still Point Arts Quarterly, Summer 2021, Issue No.42, Juried Exhibition in Print

2021   Still Point Arts Quarterly, Spring 2021, Issue No. 41, Juried Exhibition in Print.

2017 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 37/38 Juried Exhibition in Print

Featured Artist, Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 37/38, 2017

 

Awards

Best in Show, Marin County Fair, 2018-19   In collaboration with Stephen Ehret

Press

 

“The Bigger Picture,” Marin Independent Journal, December 2013

“Eleven Creative Minds to Keep your Eye On,” 7 x7 SF, November 2011

 

Education

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MBA University of Houston

BS in Business and BS in Psychology, Southern Methodist University

Painting Instruction and Mentorship with Judith Kruger, New Haven, CT

Painting Instruction with Randall Sexton, Chester Arnold and Elizabeth Zanzinger

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