I take my experience, my feelings, my hopes, fears, thoughts, desires, grief, plans, ideas, questions… and I synthesize and make something from them, like dreams or poetry, but with paint. With color, shape and movement. Rather than painting a sunset, the ocean, or a moment, I paint what things feel like and acknowledge that everything is always shifting and becoming, never just one solid thing.
That takes some juice 24x18"
the light of a million suns 18x24" -sold
anam cara 16x12
don't look back 16x18"
shattered open 24x18"
secret wildflower honey 18x24"
chaos tucked safely
the golden thread #1 18x24" not available
more than we could ever hold 24x18"
sea level 18x24"
another opening 18x24"
the flicker before 18x24"
like the moon pulls the sea 18x24"
if you're not afraid, you can't be brave
It wasn't a question of desire 18x24" Available on view at North Fork Art Collective, Greenport NY
To carry the water 18x24"
What the sunset taught me 18x24"
the weight of the sun 18x24"
Looking for a sign 18x24
With dreams like that 18x24"
Lost things are found 18x24"
Where we belong 18x24" Available on view at North Fork Art Collective, Greenport, NY
first fruits; all the love wrapped up in such a small thing 18x24"
artist statement
I am continually exploring the notion of impermanence, inspired by waves and tides, the rapidly changing sky at sunset, the way light and wind dance over and through everything. Ephemeral natural forces echo to me the shifting nature of emotion, memory, and ideas, as well as life itself. Working primarily in fluid mediums, I follow an intuitive process that allows me to embody my own undulations while I paint, reveling in the movement of the materials and playing between wet and dry, opaque and transparent, fast and slow.
The evolution of my work came during a time of profound grief. In that space of surrender, a door within me opened, allowing something deeper to be expressed.
Informed by my work with Family Constellations, at times, the gestures and movements within a painting feel like constellations themselves, arrangements of feeling, memory, and connections that can subtly shift and heal through attention and expression.
My hope is that viewers find a sense of spaciousness and a place to feel something within themselves held, reflected, and potentially, moved.
please reach out if you’re interested in an original painting. jacquelinedandelion@gmail.com
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