Jean’s work has a focus on landscape and the natural world through drawing and extended drawing. Her work aims to examines the values we place on remote or wild landscapes and how these values have changed due to present climate concerns. This work also encompasses post industrial landscapes where she looks at the discarded waste from this heritage and its lasting legacy on the people who now live there.

 

The landscapes she experiences inform her work through experimental drawing and, along with drawing, she experiments with photography, poetry and sound. Her work engages the community through workshops and projects while he viewer is engaged using videos which includes reminiscence and archival materials collected in the community along with first-person documentary-style interviews.

 

She is presently researching the viability of natural inks in printmaking for contemporary artists while looking at how colour has shaped our lives.

 

She is a member of Edinburgh Printmakers and her work can be seen in A LA LUZ (https://www.alaluz.org/) and ArtCan (https://www.artcan.org.uk/)