Jean Pederson • Watercolour

Watercolour

with Jean Pederson

March 5th, 2010 6-8pm

The Friday Night Demo Series showcases professional artists and offers opportunity to learn while watching them paint. With a question & answer session after each demo, it's a fantastic way to gain insight into how artists create. Whether you paint or not, wine, cheese and art are the perfect way to enjoy a Friday evening.

$19^+GST

{includes glass of wine & nosh}

Jean has been painting for over twenty years, balancing her strong teaching abilities, and writing with her continuing aspiration to convey her ideas in visual form.

Jean's traditional practice includes referential imagery of people, still life and landscape. The layering of a variety of media offer Jean an assortment of possibilities within her work; quality of edge, line and texture all play a role within her imagery. Although Pederson is well known for her mastery of watercolours, mixed media has become an important venue for her creative expression.

The portraits in her paintings are based on people who she has met or impacted her. These subjects in her paintings often reflect different walks of life as well as diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. We are hard pressed to find a period in time when the human figure wasn't represented. Finding a way to express the human figure in a language that reflects the twenty-first century is perhaps the greatest challenge in figurative work today.

Jean has work placed in the Royal Collection in Winsor England, and has been honored with numerous National and International awards over the years. In 2005 Jean was the first recipient of the Federation of Canadian Artists Early Achievement Award, granted for her many honors, awards, international writing to promote art education, and consistent, exceptional painting.