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JEANIE HOOPER creates layered collages on canvas and paper. Jeanie’s works are organic and textural
and often inspired by nature. She feels visually sensitive to designs in life that people never notice.  She admits, “Wanting to be original in my efforts, I rely on my intuition of what ‘feels right.’  I often lose myself in the process of play, and then redefine an organization of the (former) confusion.”

Jeanie became interested in floral images while taking a botany class, which later resulted in collages “Mum” and “Marsh Grass III.”  The latter displays how she enjoys working with the shapes of pods, grasses, ferns, and flowers in a layered composition of stained papers and paint.  Jeanie incorporates her handmade papers, as well as palm fronds and other collected natural elements in her collage work.  In “Travel Texture” organic forms show contours abutting woven grids or dense horizontal lines – an intriguing composition that optically recedes and protrudes in the picture plane. Jeanie enjoys creating her pictorial elements by staining her own papers and manipulating collected papers.  She sometimes stamps the work with her own handmade stamps to add complexity.