Elkhart Return

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I’ve just returned from my show in Elkhart, IN.  My friends Laurel Forsythe and Rod Liechty, who arranged everything with their love of art, drove me by the beauty and football power of Notre Dame and took me to dinner at a Thai restaurant, followed by a preview of my art exhibit.  It was a “win-win” situation.  Laurel’s family and the Unitarian family all had fun and are as uplifted and grateful as I am.

A touch of luck brought two special visitors to the exhibit:  Martha Suggs Spencer and her husband, Willis Spencer, who have built their own museum in Vandalia, Michigan.  Both from slave backgrounds, the Suggs’ Underground Railroad Museum honors Martha’s father, James Suggs.

Excitement in Indiana!

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My “Creation” Series is being featured in an exhibit in a Unitarian Church in Elkhart, Indiana, by my good friend for many years, Laurel Forsythe.

Here is a copy of the press release:

MOTHER LOVE AND ARTIST VERSATILITY

A group of Jeanine Semon’s paintings, in multiple techniques will open January 1, 2012, at the Unitarian Fellowship in Elkhart, Indiana. The exhibit, organized around themes of nature and mother’s feelings, goes beyond traditional ideas, appealing to universal human needs and joy. Six paintings plus a single grouped framing of sixteen phases of Creation will be shown. There will be oil painting, colored drawings, photographic prints, and acrylic paintings on canvas.

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The Basement

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The good and healthy life I enjoy, I believe comes from a foundation of a passion for art. That passion has and still does contribute a huge amount of positive energy to me (and I’m sure, to my family and friends). The places I go, the subject matter I get involved with, the excitement of newness takes my mind and my body to another dimension of exploration and fun.

People ask me, “What are you into now, Jeanine?” A close friend used to come into our house, walk down the basement stairs, lean out and call, “What’s going on? There’s always something going on here.”

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An Artist’s Way of Life

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I’m a lifelong painter, originally from Portage, WI, now living in the deep northwoods of Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, on the Ojibwe reservation. Our house looks out on beautiful Bolton Lake, where we swim and sail in summer and walk in the winter, enjoying nature’s fairyland of whiteness. Mostly I paint, at this time usually with watercolors, while my husband composes novels and plays.

It is my desire, with this blog, to communicate my feelings about my life–my art, my good health, my way of life at an older age. My pattern of living has culminated into a time of high creativity as an artist and business woman. I’m having fun and I feel fortunate.

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