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“Fog and Sun, Owl's Head” © Jean
Hirons
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Name: Jean Hirons, PSA
Bio:
Jean Hirons was raised in the seaside town of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts,
where she returns to paint each year. Having grown up in New England, she is
particularly sensitive to the painting potential of the New England landscape,
with its houses, farms, coastal villages. Landscapes are her passion, captured en
plein air when possible. Her work represents not only the local area, but
other parts of the United States and Europe.
Jean
majored in art in college, then took a detour into library science, and ended
up for 20 years in the Library of Congress. She returned to painting in the
1980s, and converted to pastels in 1991 with a box 90 Rembrandts and a sheaf of
Canson paper – a denouement I can identify with! Jean has taken workshops with Duane
Wakeham, Doug Dawson, Bob Rohm, Susan Ogilvie, Elizabeth Mowry, Albert
Handell, Margaret Dyer and Richard McKinley. She is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America, the Maryland Pastel Society and the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod.
In
2005 Jean took early retirement and
began teaching weekly art classes at Montgomery College, in Rockville. She now teaches at the Yellow Barn in Glen Echo Park, Bethesda. Jean's work was featured in the Pastel Journal, June 2011 issue, and she wrote an important piece on the importance of personal development in art in the June 2012 issue.
Jean
lives in Rockville, Maryland, and is represented by Waverly Street Gallery in
Bethesda, Maryland, and by Rogers Gallery in her hometown of
Mattapoisett.
Medium:
Pastel
Technique:
Jean likes to begin with a charcoal or graphite drawing on a white substrate;
this is rubbed in with water; colour washes are then overlaid, before soft
pastel is painted on top. Jean rarely uses hard pastels, except when fine
detail is required. While she works in plein air, she also will base a painting
on a photo, using artistic licence to interpret the composition and colour,
Subjects:
Landscape; still life.
Publications:
Finding Your Style in Pastel ; Author House, $51.99.
ISBN
978-1-47727-135-3
E-book
version also available, and through Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.
Style:
Representational, but loose, painterly and atmospheric.
Navigation:
Main menu remains available at all times at side of page.
Gallery:
Mid-Atlantic; New England; West/Midwest; Other
Image
View: Thumbnails enlarge on a new page. There is a return to gallery link, but
if you use the “right click, open on new tab/page” option you can keep the gallery
page open too. All images are labelled with title and dimension – the medium is
always pastel. Download is possible. Fog
and Sun, Owl's Head is 12 x 16 ins, 513 x 380, 60 KB.
Blog:
Yes – this is a new blog and looks very
promising indeed.
Demo:
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