I am a nomad, traveling all of my life. As an artist I use oil paint, photography, writing, poetry. I am an art scholar (PhD) specializing in traditional Chinese/Japanese ink painting and its aesthetic principles ('emptiness', 'floating perspective', 'movement of energy') and in contemporary art from China. Studying Asian art while being trained in oil painting in Europe balances my work between East and West.
I like the color ι, the 'color of mountains in the distance' in traditional inkpainting, translated as ‘blue’, ‘green’, or ‘black’. As soon as I pick up the brush I disappear into the mountains transferring the tranquility around me onto the canvas, I splash waves into seascapes or compose cloudscapes, I try to graps the entanglement we are part of. I want to create a realm of nomadic freedom in which we can roam and wander in close connection to nature.
I am also interested in how power works through myth building, the readiness of masses of people to blindly serve and follow, in bottom-up dynamics, in the tipping point - a split second in which everything turns around and mighty power falls into pieces, in the invincible power of resistance, in the impact and resilience individual people can have in creating countermovements, and in the role of art and cultural memory.
And I am interested in rituals, intimate rituals of celebration, connection, mourning, consolation, death and life.
This site lists a selection of oil paintings I have created since 2011 (a major turning point in my life) and exhibitions from recent years.
My name in characters is ε εΎ·η.
As a scholar I follow the Asia Art Archive AAA
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Commissioned art
If you would like to have one or a series of oil paintings in a specific size or color palette to commemorate a special ritual or event, please contact me via the contact page.
I will be happy to listen carefully to your wishes and discuss possibilities.
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Publications: jeanneboden.com
Photography: Photoblog
Interviews: Video
IG: jbodenart
© Image Artist at Work: Diana Dimbueni