After many years as a fashion illustrator and designer, Jeri took time off to raise a family while working from home as a textile and graphic designer. Devoting herself to full time painting over 10 years ago, and sharing her love of pastels by teaching, has led to a new and interesting “second act”. Jeri has found that the immediacy of pastels make them the perfect medium in which to “Make the Ordinary, Extraordinary” and tell stories in her paintings.
Jeri loves painting still lives, urban interiors, and especially figures & fabrics. Her interest in negative space painting and finding “hidden colors” in objects make her classes enlightening. Jeri has been teaching weekly Zoom classes and workshops for many years to students from all over the country and the UK!
Before moving to North Carolina, Jeri taught weekly classes in New York & New Jersey, and now teaches weekly at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, and continues to do demos and workshops both in person and via Zoom for art groups all over.
She has represented New Sets of Pastels for Terry Ludwig Pastels and now is a Unison Pastel Associate Artist Brand Ambassador Jeri was voted a Wilmington “Women2Watch” for Wilmington Magazine and its sister publication WILMA.
Jeri is represented in NC by Art In Bloom Gallery.
Affiliations
Master Circle IAPS
Signature Member of The Pastel Society of America
Member of The Salmagundi Club in New York
Signature member of the Pastel Society of North Carolina
Signature member of the Pastel Society of New Jersey
Signature Member of The Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod
Signature Member of the Connecticut Pastel Society
Pastel Society of New Hampshire
The Degas Pastel Society
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, NYC
Member of Distinction, American Women Artists (AWA)
Published in:
Wilmington Magazine
Wilma, Women to Watch
American Artist
Pastel Journal
Best in Drawing
Plein Air Magazine
Artists Magazine
Numerous Awards in both National and International Pastel Shows.
Upcoming workshops 2024/25:
Kittery ME
Cape Cod MA
Wilmington NC
Philadelphia PA
Frederick MD
Manahawkin NJ
San Diego CA