Painting raffle
Wisconsin artist Jean Crane has donated “Day’s Reflection,” an exquisite original watercolor painting valued at $1,400 for Plymouth Arts Center’s annual Painting Raffle. This raffle held in conjunction with the sixth annual Cheese Capital Jazz Crawl for the Arts, is a fundraiser for the PAC’s visual arts program and Gallery 110 North.
Raffle tickets are now available at the Arts Center through Aug. 14. The drawing will be held the evening of the Jazz Crawl, Friday, Aug. 14, at 9 p.m.
For your chance to win, visit the Arts Center at 520 E. Mill St., call (920) 892-8409, or e-mail paf@excel.net to purchase tickets.
The raffle ticket includes other great prizes: second prize – two nights at the Landmark Resort in Door County donated by Friends of the Arts, Dick and Jo Cornell; third prize – four tickets to a Sheboygan Symphony Concert donated by the SSO; and fourth prize – two tickets to the Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival in West Bend.
Artist Jean Crane is noted for her beautifully executed watercolor paintings of expressive flowers. Her paintings depict flowers carefully composed in graceful stilllives or dramatically described in their natural abandon. Whether the image portrays a single monumental flower or a profusion of exotic blooms, Crane captures their fleeting freshness and luxuriant beauty.
Crane has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University, as well as a teaching degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her paintings have been included in numerous regional and national juried and invitational group and solo exhibitions and are in corporate and private collections throughout the United States.
Crane is represented by Banaker Gallery, Walnut Creek, Calif.; Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison; Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek; Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee; and Leslie Levy Galleries, Scottsdale, Ariz. Crane is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and received the Emily Lowe Award of the American Watercolor Society.
T
he following is “Jean Crane
Artist’s Statement”:
I am very interested in the
boundaries between shapes, how
they come together and the push
and pull as they affect each other.
I like manipulating values, so that
some shapes come forward, and
others are pushed into the background.
Flowers have been a focus, but
more often now, than in the past
in a wilder, less formal setting,
and just at the very beginning
edge of disintegration. The dark
backgrounds are an important
emotional element – they symbolize
the source of life and energy
that the flowers have come out of,
and to which they will eventually
return.
Another theme that I have been
exploring is the distortions and
reflections that glass creates –
almost like small universes mirroring
the environment, but unique
and complete in themselves. –
by Jean Crane
For more information or to purchase advance wristbands for the sixth annual Cheese Capital Jazz Crawl for the Arts, contact the Arts Center or visit www.ply moutharts.org.
