Jodie is excited to announce the launch of her new website, Deep Space Paintings, which features her paintings of deep space objects. Following the first exhibit of her work in Borrego Springs, Jodie is looking forward to solicitations to exhibit in Texas and Louisiana. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you'd like the work displayed in your town.

Jodie's Artist Statement
Since childhood, my three major creative “daemons,” as Jungian psychology would define the term, have competed for my time and attention: fiction, art, and music. The daemons often collaborate in ways I don’t foresee. My first novel was about a painter. My historical fantasy trilogy’s main character is a bard—a poet and musician. I played bass guitar and keyboard in my husband Steven’s rock opera based on the trilogy, which begins with The Rhymer and the Ravens. During one performance, my painting “The Green Woman,” which is the second novel’s cover image, hung in an exhibit in the theatre lobby.

The night skies of Borrego Springs and an interest in astronomy combined to inspire these paintings of deep space objects. Two factors determine my choice of subject: the sheer beauty of the image, and whether I sense a certain numinosity or presence in it. As I paint, I think about the star birth that occurs so far away, and about the life that may be evolving there too, for all we know. Light from these galaxies and nebulae travels so long and far to reach us that to look at them is a form of traveling back into time—we see these objects not as they are, but as they were when their light began its journey here. Our new ability to use astronomical photography to record these images in such detail, and to make them available to so many people, strikes me as one of the major intellectual events of our time. A vast and infinitely complex universe surrounds our planet and its daily conflicts and concerns. I marvel that I live in an era when so much beauty, mystery and thought-provoking perspective on the human condition are so readily accessible. Visit Deep Space Paintings

Catch an art tip from Jodie on Jerry's artarama website.