Jean Denney is an emerging painter who works in watercolor, ink, and oil. Her love of the human figure stems from a lifelong study of dance. Her focus shifted from visual art to performing arts when offered an opportunity to tour with a dance company while still in college. After a 30-year career in dance, she returned to visual art makin
Jean Denney is an emerging painter who works in watercolor, ink, and oil. Her love of the human figure stems from a lifelong study of dance. Her focus shifted from visual art to performing arts when offered an opportunity to tour with a dance company while still in college. After a 30-year career in dance, she returned to visual art making and began painting landscape en plein air while also continuing her figure drawing. Creating communion between the somatic human experience and living landscape drives her work which has been shown in Kansas City, MO, Topeka and Lawrence, KS.
For me, painting is like dancing; it's never the same twice. I'm a gardener and kitchen witch so I love the outdoors, natural water, native plants, and just plain old dirt. I paint from life. I practice soma-aesthetics. That is to say, I simultaneously shape my bodily awareness with the cognitive intention to express and create art. For m
For me, painting is like dancing; it's never the same twice. I'm a gardener and kitchen witch so I love the outdoors, natural water, native plants, and just plain old dirt. I paint from life. I practice soma-aesthetics. That is to say, I simultaneously shape my bodily awareness with the cognitive intention to express and create art. For me this feels like communion; being fully aware of myself while also being with the liveness the environment. It’s a wholistic approach to making meaning of the moment, in the moment. I love color, light, and atmosphere all of which vex and intrigue me, seduce me really. Every time I paint, I feel grateful to be a sentient, conscious being on this remarkable planet.
Allow, receive, perceive, express, repeat. My practice as an artist includes daily meditation, movement, reading, writing, and making marks. These collective actions each bring me into communion with myself, others, and the environment. For me, communion is optimum engagement; allowing communion to direct the experience by receiving new s
Allow, receive, perceive, express, repeat. My practice as an artist includes daily meditation, movement, reading, writing, and making marks. These collective actions each bring me into communion with myself, others, and the environment. For me, communion is optimum engagement; allowing communion to direct the experience by receiving new stimuli, consciously perceiving what is unfolding, and intentionally expressing a response. This process provides an opportunity to make meaning of the human/environment communion, a lived experience of a moment of exchange. I experience and express communion somatically, semiotically, and semantically through movement art, visual art, and writing. I am particularly focused on plein air painting in order to discover new phenomena - internal mysteries, external vistas, spontaneous non-discursive connections. I create in order to deepen my relationship with myself, with others, and the world around me.
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