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January 4, 2024 · by Jennifer Peck

Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2024

Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2024! The show season is ramping up! We'll be opening with the Dunedin Fine Art Festival ~ January 6th and 7th from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. Then... we're in Bonita Springs, Lakewood Ranch and finish January at St. Armands.

The Back to Nature series

Jennifer in a straw hat and pink top at her booth beside a large cresting-wave paper collage, leaf collages hanging behind her

I've been working on something a little different I'm excited to share!

I am pleased to introduce the "Back to Nature" Series! These will make wonderful sets, or choose your favorite and it will make a fabulous statement on its own.

Force of Nature collage: layered navy and slate banana leaves with a yellow monstera and orange bloom on pale dotted blue
Force of Nature

Force of Nature

Mother Nature collage: deep blue banana leaves and golden-yellow leaves over gray-blue, Greek key and gold-checked papers
Mother Nature

Mother Nature

Better Nature collage: an orange bird-of-paradise and white starburst bloom rising over indigo panels and pale blue fronds
Better Nature

Better Nature

Second Nature collage: blue-and-white paisley medallions, a blue star flower and yellow accents on silver-dotted pale blue
Second Nature

Second Nature

Back to Nature collage: a wide composition of blue and yellow leaves drifting across striped, dotted and patterned papers
Back to Nature

Back to Nature

Experiments in recycled abstraction

Many days after long hours in the studio, I have gathered up the paper scraps on the floor and admired how interesting and beautiful the shapes and colors were. There were always the pieces I couldn't bring myself to sweep away. So the big box of scraps started, and built over the years!

Studio worktable covered in blue and gold paper scraps, cut fans, leaves and chevrons, with scissors and panels in progress
Jennifer arranging paper scraps across canvases on her studio worktable, baskets and shelves behind her by the garden door
Jennifer's hands placing a yellow monstera cut-out among deep blue banana leaves and silver-dotted papers on a work in progress

When I collage, I make different things out of paper that don't always work. Just yesterday I made about 12 blue leaves that didn't fit where I thought they would, so those go in another box! I always knew I would do something with the "left-overs", I just couldn't place when or how. That's what I love about Art, it mimics life. There are those boxes of things that we hold on to, that we know are important or will play a role in our future, but we just don't always know how or why.

Overhead view of the studio table, a scrap collage taking shape amid piles of blue patterned paper, scissors and gold sheets
Close-up across a sealed collage panel: yellow cut shapes, silver dots and a blue-and-white china motif catching the light
Angled close-up of a collage panel edge: blue-and-white floral medallion, gold-and-navy checked band and a navy leaf
Looking down at a large leaf collage in progress, blue fronds, peach star flowers and patterned papers, red sneakers at the edge

We are attracted to them, and compile them, for many different reasons. In fact, there are scraps in the boxes I have looked at so many times over the years, that I grew attached to them!

The impetus came when my Aunt Belle, who knows I love Matisse, visited his "Cut-Outs" show currently on exhibit at the MOMA in New York, sent a portfolio of some of these works as a gift. Inspired, I finally gave myself the time to experiment, and to trust an intuitive flow of ideas and decisions on color, balance and compositions of my own.

It's a joyful and freeing experience to work in this way, and I hope the feelings I had while creating them come through. A little random playfulness...and pure joy!

2024 winter show dates

Two white festival tents with Jennifer Peck Fine Art banners, walls of framed coastal collages and a browsing bin of prints
  • January 6th-7th: Downtown Dunedin Art Festival, 271 Main Street in Dunedin, FL
  • January 13th-14th: Bonita Springs National Art Festival, 10450 Reynolds St, Bonita Springs, FL 34135
  • January 20th-21st: Lakewood Ranch Fine Art Festival, 8100 Lakewood Main St, Bradenton, FL 34202
  • January 27th-28th: 21st Annual St. Armands Circle Art Festival, 1 St. Armands Circle in Sarasota, FL
  • February 10th-11th: 10th Annual St. Petersburg Fine Art Festival, South Straub Park, Bayshore Drive Northeast, St. Petersburg, FL
  • February 17th-18th: 18th Annual Coconut Point Art Festival, 23181 Via Villagio Drive in Estero, FL

Please see my website for information on shows for the rest of the season.

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