About the Artist
Known for her dynamic and colorful paintings, Jeanne Steers works mainly in acrylic or wax oil crayon on shaped masonite board. Over the years her work on shaped board has evolved, the shaped canvas adding an additional dimension and element to the meaning of the piece. This third dimension adds depth while providing an unique framework for the art.
Jeanne lives in Roxbury, Connecticut with her husband and two children. Her husband Chris, a carpenter by trade, assists her by cutting the shapes out of hardboard, helping with the metalwork, and assembling the pieces. Their collaboration gives her the freedom to explore new shapes and meanings.
Each collection is based on a shape or series of shapes that are then explored as Jeanne facilitates the relationship between the shape, and the paint. The shapes and collections examines a facet of self awareness and exploration. The collection Array, explores our individual uniqueness juxtaposed with our collective strength and ability to allow ourselves to shine. Flow explores how our energy moves through us into the world and how the world is reciprocal in its flow of complimentary energy creating an ebb and flow. Point, discusses snapshots or moments in time, while Visage explores our connection to each other and humanity.
Jeanne Steers is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in illustration. She owns Steers Studios, a design studio offering website design, graphic design and illustration services.
Artist's Statement
My love of paint allows for my expression of life through this medium. By allowing myself to be a conduit for the paint I am able to share the beauty of color, light, texture and form with the world through this work. By showing up and engaging with the paint, I let the paint be the paint, and I am the vehicle.
When left to its own devices paint becomes what it is and beautifully so. As a participant in the painting process I become the medium within which the paint can fully flourish. The dance between us creates a space to open a dialogue.
Shapes offer a new dimension, a frame for the conversation. The shape creates order in a seemingly chaotic world allowing the paint to express itself as needed without restraint. The shape holds the dialogue together creating focus and structure to an open and freeing exchange of emotion and experience to share with all.
