Minnie Jardine
I love trees. Can't help it, always have. My paintings are loosely based on what I see around me, but are filtered through memory. My studio is shaded by an enormous black walnut, and is perched on the edge of a small creek.
CONTACT INFORMATION
- phone:
- 607-564-1869
- e-mail:
- minniejardine@earthlink.net
- website:
- www.minniejardine.com
ADDRESS
7 Valley View Road, West Danby, NY 14883AddressSTUDIO DIRECTIONS
Head south out of Ithaca on Route 34. About six miles past Eddydale’s Farm Market, you’ll come up a little rise and see a big wooden ‘Welcome to West Danby’ sign on your right. About half a mile further, you’ll take a right onto Valley View (Maple Avenue). Bear right as you make the turn and park in the first driveway on the left, alongside a stucco house with brown trim, house number 7. The studio is in the building at the end of the driveway
RESUMÉ/BIO
Minnie's early work includes still-life drawings and watercolors, these latter primarily a series of intense portraits of flowers, a kind of botanical expressionism. A job in the early 90s doing scenic painting for theater productions led her to oils; it was here that she found her preferred medium.
Since 2001 she has been immersed in the study of yoga, and that practice has enlarged her painting by breathing new life and ease into the creative process, as well as by deepening her sense of spiritual attachment to the world around her.
In Minnie's paintings, remembered landscapes are blended with those in front of her. The work in her last show was an intimate look at trees, not only the varied shapes of the branches and trunks, but as much also at the spaces in between. Her work is loosely representational but relies heavily on filters of emotion
and memory.
Minnie's interest in trees continues here, fueled now by the seasonally changing hardwood forests of the Northeast, by the stark and low winter sun that marks the forest floor, and by the increased awareness of one's surroundings that inevitably comes with a move to a new world.
