After a break of a couple of weeks, this small painting, Japanese Moon, is now complete. A few final collage elements were added to vary the surface and gently disrupt the composition. It now feels finished. #studiopractice #collage #quietpainting #slowart #paintingthoughts #geometricabstraction

“We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies.” A Conspiracy of Orphans: John Berger on impertinence: a mini zine with an excerpt from his book Confabulations (2016). Hand-collaged with typewriter text on cyanotyped paper. £2 + p&p jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/product/a-co... #zine #johnberger

Well after months if not years! I’ve dipped my typing finger back into the socials (apart from the odd post on insta). Life’s been too busy to be post all the intimate details but there will be a few updates here I hope. Anyway here’s some recent things some with words in them.

No…the other one… Bouziès Boats...by John Hoyland Following on from my last post something a little lighter (and back to painting) from my recent jolly to the East Coast. We were staying in a lovely property nestled deep in the Suffolk countryside (roughly half way from Framlingham to Saxmundham)…

'Now voyager — unmake, decentre yourself.' Selected pages from my zine You the Great Adventurer: collage meditations on moving through these times with joy, hope and togetherness. Dedicated to Joanna Macy. Print copies £4 + postage: jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/product/you-... #zines #collage

Matisse’s Head, White and Rose (1914) has been described as a “studio painting” — experimental, perhaps unsuccessful, or sits awkwardly alongside an artist’s signature works. I’ve been working on a couple of such paintings myself: oddities that probably belong only in the studio. #studionotes

Richard Eason - a supporter of Longbarrow Press for twenty years, and a good friend for thirty years - would have turned 52 today. A week after his death, I walked from Leeds to Goole, and thought of him. This is an account of the walking and thinking. longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/unrecovere...

Researcher Rhiannon Bull from @uofgges.bsky.social is launching an appeal to gather short pieces of creative writing reflecting thoughts and feelings about climate change in Scotland. Interested in signing up? Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... @communitylandsc.bsky.social

We Are Worthy of Love 💙🐖 I made this cyanotype-print postcard as a love song to pig beings and a call for compassion for all animals. Printed on recycled card for sale at £1 per postcard, proceeds to Pigs in the Wood rescue centre! jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/product/we-a... #AnimalCompassion

It’s early days, but I’m making slow progress on a couple of new works. One is made up of stripes and a single diamond form; the other, an arrangement of diamonds and triangles. At this stage, I feel I’m still discovering their true natures. #geometricabstraction #comtemporaryabstractpainting

Work in progress. Working on a series of studies on paper. #geometricabstraction #comtemporaryabstractpainting