30” x 30” Mixed Media 2024

New work from Calgary, AB Artist, Jean Pederson for her upcoming exhibition “Simple To Complex” Opening on Saturday November 16, 2024 at Elevation Gallery, Downtown 729 Main St. Canmore, Alberta.

“It is my desire to employ different materials, scale and processes in my work and are the evidence of an artist always taking risks, searching for that connection…that one "true" moment between myself, my subject and you the viewer. The openness, immediacy and sensitivity of my hand while simultaneously rendering a likeness creates complex fluid personages that reflect the emotional and psychological complexity common to each of us…. flawed, compassionate, vulnerable and that which makes us most human.”

~Jean Pederson