about me

Statement

Consistently amongst all my forms of creative expression, there is a reoccurring focus on the process. The process of making art. The process of life. The process of freeing your mind from any nagging critics, the ones (who for some odd reason) don’t want you to succeed. EvER. My transcendental art speaks of the process of getting acquainted with your most authentic voice (or in my case… voices) and clearing a path for that voice to shine. Through painting, I explore the zen of letting attachments go (like the serendipitous way those colors blend together so perfectly, that now call to be painted over… ah!) releasing fear of mistakes (there really is nO such thing) and experimenting with letting Little Jenni LaLa… (the true artistic genius within me) be the leader and make all the executive decisions After all, she IS the genius, not me.

Her intelligence guides me through an intimate relationship. A relationship that consists of gooey, dripping house paint, rapid scribbling markers, soft, sensitive lines kissed by colored pencil, and pens gauging into wood. I am passionately involved with lime green, unrefined circles and layer upon layer of ‘yes this will work’ and ‘gotta keep painting’. Abstract compositions form intuitively as a result of this relationship, often integrating a free flow of text and an increasing use of recognizable objects. With deliberate subconscious, they reflect how I perceive the surrounding world.

Thanks so much for visiting my website. Please feel free to contact me if you are

interested in my art, wanna join my mailing list, hire a caricature artist for your event, collaborate, go out to tea, play some music... what else would you like to do?

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e-mail jmercede@hotmail.com