40” x 60” Mixed Media 2024

“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