Jean Gumpper was born in Hawaii, grew up in Michigan and lives in Colorado Springs with her husband, Stephen Flynn. Jean is currently a Visiting Professor at Colorado College and her prints are represented by several galleries nationally and internationally. Jean taught in an international print workshop at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2008 and 2009. In 2000, she received a Visual Artist Fellowship award from the Colorado Council on the Arts. She participated as an artist in residence at the Goldwell Museum in 2011, the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in 2009, at the Ucross Foundation in 2001 and at Rocky Mountain National Park in 1998.
"In my work as an artist and printmaker, I respond to landscape as a metaphor for emotions and experiences. Being alone in nature helps me to listen to my intuition and to have the patience necessary to really see. I seek to integrate the memories, sounds and feelings of being in the landscape into the making of the print. The carving of the woodblock and the layering of the ink echo natural processes such as the layering of leaves, water, trees and light. Each color is mixed carefully and applied in a series of transparent and opaque overlapping layers through a reduction woodcut process and gradually, the layers build up into a completed image. Making the print is a way to relive an experience and to share it with others." |
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