Nature Our Greatest Teacher
and The Blue Pearl

Exhibition
April 28 – July 19, 2012

Foreword

Joe Schenk, Director
Art Museum of South Texas
Corpus Christi, Texas


Photographs

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Duryea Studios
Susan Smedley


Digital Productions

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Beeville Art Museum

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FOREWORD

Over the past five years, it has been a pleasure to get to know Jayne Duryea as an artist and friend. She is one of the most versatile artists I know. Her ability to move with fluidity between diverse media such as blown and cast glass, watercolor painting, plasma cut steel sculpture, and oil painting is amazing.

On another note, it is important to acknowledge the accomplishments of Jayne Duryea in building the art department at Coastal Bend College in Beeville. This is a critical aspect of her artistic work. She has been a positive influence on so many young artists by sharing her artistic passions. It is a testimonial to her many talents which make her an art treasure in South Texas.

Jayne has always had a connection to nature and our South Texas area has provided much inspiration. In addition, her travels have offered connections to wonderful environments in Europe and other parts of the world providing even more engaging subject matter.

When you view Jayne's art, you can’t help but be drawn in. As someone who is a sucker for color, Jayne is always singing my song. The vibrancy of her work is uplifting to one’s spirit. She provides energy in each piece as well. Jayne also provides a message in each work to those who take the time to explore. I encourage anyone viewing her works to spend more time with them and let them speak to you. You will be richer for each minute and I know they can provide joy and inspiration.

Joe Schenk, Director
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi


STATEMENT FROM THE ARTIST

Exhibition 2012

This exhibition is titled, Nature, Our Greatest Teacher & The Blue Pearl. Nature can transcend our thoughts, desires and curiosities and push creativity beyond limits if we will only be still and listen. Some of my interest is to express the delightful curiosity of nature, particularly the color and light quality. I also delight in the many choices of media available to me and feel free to express in a 2 or 3 dimensional manor. A friend of mine recently coined a word for my work as Dremagine or Imadream as he sees it as a collaboration of my imagination and dreams. It is curious thought to me... as I soak in the details. As surely, it is the essence of my expression and the process of delightful encounter that truly intrigues me. To live a life of creative encounter so to speak.

I also want to thank the Museum for the invitation to exhibit in the wonderful museum space. It is always a pleasure to share my work and I do hope that it will inspire creativity and enjoyment for all who view it.


On Painting:

The objective, essentially, is to create a heightened sense of color interaction, to bring a freshness or clarity to the movement of color. To explore that visual illusion of color and space that reawakens our perceptions. One of the major abstract elements begins with the interest in the fluidity and movement of nature and its particular color and light quality. To create a lasting effect in memory, to make an impression, Imprinting Nature, so to speak.

The works become a kind of meditation on sensuality, sorrow, loss and self-discovery. The vehicle for exploration and expression can be found in paint or glass as well as other materials. I create works because I can, because I need to, for me. Just as I have always done as a young child growing up on the Bay in New York.


On Glass:

The objectives, as stated on painting, are the same for Glass. Glass is that three-dimensional expression of my need for exploration to complete the cycle of creativity. Glass is a natural choice for it is extremely alive and fluid.

My deep connection to nature, our greatest teacher of life, constantly surprises and inspires to push the limits of glass beyond the realm of understanding. A meditative dance, it influencing me as I influence it, until the collaboration is complete.
As Alfredo Barbini once said, You do not force glass, you follow glass.

Jayne Duryea
April 2012

About Jayne Duryea

Originally from New York, Jayne Duryea has been a resident of South Texas since 1981. Currently she is Division Chair of Fine Arts and Kinesiology at Coastal Bend College in Beeville, Texas. She has been Division Chair since 1989 and also Director of the Simon Michael Gallery.

Her expression is realized through sculptured hot glass and painting, which are also courses and workshops she teaches throughout the year. Jayne attributes a deeper enrichment of her work — both painting and glass — to a six-month sabbatical in France, and an opportunity to study glass-blowing at Murano glass factories in Italy. Light and color, along with a return to nature, are the key elements of my artwork, stated the artist.

Jayne is a member of the Texas Fine Arts Association, Glass Art Society, American Association of University Women, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and has been nominated as Texas Artist of the Year two years in a row (2008-2009 and 2009-2010).

Her work can be found in many private and permanent collections throughout the States, Canada, Cayman Islands and France; including the Rockwell Foundation, Houston, Texas, the National Museum of Women, Archives, Washington, D.C. and the Corning Museum of Glass, Archives, Corning, New York.

About Beeville Art Museum

Photo of Art The Beeville Art Museum, created and operated by the Joe Barnhart Foundation, is first and foremost a teaching museum, providing cultural and educational opportunities for the citizens of Bee County and surrounding areas.

Cited by Texas Monthly magazine as one of the great small towns for art, Beeville, with a population of approximately 13,000, is home to one of the most ambitious art and educational programs in Texas. In addition to exhibiting works by some of Texas’s most renowned artists, as well as selections from private collections and major museums across the state, the Beeville Art Museum provides docent-led tours and art classes for children and adults and workshops for Beeville educators at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.


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FLOWER GALLERY

"The Flower, a constant reminder of the cycle of life". Each painting is a memory of someone gone but not forgotten.

The hot sculpted glass work was created and produced in Beeville, "Beevillian" glass or Murano, Italy. My interest is in the solid sculpture form that lends itself to glass as a sculptural media for expression. A material so alive and fluid that a meditative dance occurs, it influencing me as I influence it until the collaboration is complete. As Alfredo Barbini once said, You do not force glass, but follow glass.

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    Madeline's Favorite
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    Madeline's Favorite and Flowers Reaching for the Sun
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    Les Fleurs
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    Nana's Poppy
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    Le Fleur

BIRD GALLERY

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  • Influenced by loss and inspired to begin again, "Portraits" of special people that I have known through out my life. These are but a few... do you see yourself in one?

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    Steven's Crow, watercolor on paper
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  • "What Strange Birds Are We" series
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    What strange birds are we, Self Portrait

HAND GALLERY

  • "The hand as an instrument for making and producing."

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  • Hold and handle. Clutch and grip. Grasping and letting go. Caressing. Pinching. All ways of dealing with life experiences.

    Can you see yourself as one of the white hand series?

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    Which Are You
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    Whispering Hand
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    Whispering Hand

MEDITATION GALLERY

  • I have recently returned from a Transcendental Meditation Retreat in the Woodlands, Texas. Very inspiring and confirming of the importance that TM has had in my life. I began TM on February 2, 1974, young and unknowing the journey that I was about to partake in. Prayer, as always, has been my first priority with TM for health and well being. I have also placed special books that I have collected over the years in the search for self and enlightenment.

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    The Blue Pearl

    Like The Moth Into The Flame

    Peace Be With You

    The Dance

    Tao Te Ching #63 and Perception

    Don't Paint Yourself Into A Corner

    watercolor and pastel on paper

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    Desiderata Painted on wall by Artist
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    Desiderata Painted on wall by Artist

GLASS GALLERY

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    Hot sculptured glass is the three dimensional expression of my need to complete the cycle of creativity. Glass is the natural choice as it is extremely fluid and alive. It constantly surprises and inspires me to push the limits of glass beyond the realm of understanding. A meditative dance, it influences me as I influence it, until the collaboration is complete. As Alfredo Barbini once said, You do not force glass, you follow glass.

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    Looking Towards The Sky

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    Le Fleur Blue
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    Le Fleur
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    Monolith
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    Blue Dancing
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    L'Espirit de Natural, un petit per du moi

GARDEN STUDIES

These are but a few of the Plein Air studies completed during my sabbatical in Chateauneuf De Grasse, in the South of France. A wonderful small village where I lived and painted in preparation for the Garden Mural Work.

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    Vue de la Rue de Opio

    Du Vue des Villefranch

    Jardin des Ivy et Avery Wilson

    Rue du Boissone

    Vue de Rue des Allees Prochain a mas de Chemie

    Les Jardines de Wilsons

    L'ouvert Porte a L'atlier du Ru du Four

    La Porte Rouge, Ru de Bellevie

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    Frank Avery Wilson's Garden

GARDEN GALLERY

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"The Mural, 8 panel work"

This is an expression capturing the essence of a very special garden in Chateauneuf De Grass, a small village in the South of France, where I lived for some time during a six-month sabbatical. The garden belonged to Mr. Frank Avray Wilson, who was an abstract action painter from England in the 1950’s. Then at 80 years of age, he was writing a book on the quantum study of art and science, which was a great inspiration to me. He had given me the key to his garden as he returned to Norway and also one of his first books, Art as Understanding.

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The gate depicted on one of the panels represents a steep 20 foot walk up to the garden. Over the stone wall spread the rolling foothills of the French Alps towards the Mediterranean Sea. One can see as far as from the Southern coast of Italy to Saint Tropez. My expression was to capture the dazzling color and dappled light of the garden along with the sultry breeze of the Mediterranean Sea.

PARK WORKS

Drawing on Steel with Fire

I have recently become intrigued by Drawing On Steel With Fire. The gestural line and excitement of making marks with fire has become extremely exciting and intriguing to me. These drawings seem to be moving towards a sculptural form incorporating glass as well. I do not know where I will end up but the process is extreme. I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do!

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Flock of Birds

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Effortless Being

LIST OF EXHIBITION WORK

Hand Gallery

  1. Whispering Hand, Steel with Glass, 48W x 72L

  2. Which Are You, Cast plaster - 14 hands, life size

  3. Blue Head Watching, Hot blown and sculptured glass, 9" x 5” x 8”


Meditation Gallery

  1. The Blue Pearl (Tao Te Ching #57), Watercolor on paper, 40H x 32W

  2. Like The Moth Into The Flame, Watercolor on paper, 40H x 32W

  3. Peace Be With You, Watercolor on paper, 40H x 32W

  4. The Dance, Watercolor on paper, 40H x 32W

  5. Tao Te Ching #63 and Perception, Watercolor on paper, 40H x 32W

  6. Don't Paint Yourself Into A Corner, Watercolor on paper, 40H x 32W


Glass Gallery

  1. L'Espirit de Natural – un petit per du moi, hot sculptured glass, 24”H

  2. Looking Towards the Sky, hot sculptured glass, 24”H x 12” Dia

  3. Dancing in the Light, hot sculptured glass, 20” (3 Chunks), Monolith, hot sculpted glass, 14”H and Blue Dancing, hot sculpted glass, 14”H


Garden Gallery

  1. Le Fleur Bleue, Hot blown glass. 13H x 24W

  2. Les Fleurs, Hot sculptured glass, color, twisted air stem

  3. Frank Avery Wilson's Garden, 1993-95, Oil on canvas, 10'H x 25'W - 8 panels each 51H x 76W


Garden Studies

  1. Vue de la Rue de Opio, oil on board, 25.25” x 21.25”

  2. Du Vue des Villefranch, acrylic on paper, 25.25” x 21.25”

  3. Jardin des Ivy et Avery Wilson, acrylic on paper, 25.25” x 21.25”

  4. Rue du Boissone, acrylic on paper, 25.25” x 21.25”

  5. Vue de Rue des Allees Prochain a mas de Chemie, acrylic on paper, 25.25” x 21.25”

  6. Les Jardines de Wilsons, acrylic on paper, 25.25” x 21.25”

  7. L'ouvert Porte a L'atlier du Ru du Four, acrylic on paper, 25.25” x 21.25”

  8. La Porte Rouge, Ru de Bellevie, acrylic on paper, 25.25” x 21.25”


Bird Gallery

  1. Tao's Way I, Watercolor on paper, 40W x 32H

  2. Tao's Way II, Watercolor on paper, 40W x 32H

  3. Tao's Way III, Watercolor on paper, 40W x 32H

  4. Bird Songs, Watercolor on paper, 40W x 32H

  5. Self Portrait, Watercolor on paper, 40W x 32H

  6. Me and My Friends I, Watercolor on paper, 40W x 32H

  7. Me and My Friends II, Watercolor on paper, 40W x 32H

  8. Four & Twenty Blue Birds, hot sculptured glass, seeds, 6 mirrors, 24” x 36” and Birds and Ivy, hot sculptured glass (19 birds/10 ivy leaves/1 vine), 24” x 36”

  9. Birds of a Feather, collage of 8 bird paintings, 5 – 18” x 24” and 3 – 22.5” x 30”


Flower Gallery

  1. Madeline's Favorite, Watercolor on paper, 40W x 53H

  2. Flowers Reaching for the Sun, Hot sculptured glass, color, chards on steel base

  3. Nana's Poppy, Watercolor on paper, 42H x 53W

  4. Le Fleur, Hot sculptured glass .8H x 15Dia. ARS Murano Glass Factory,Murano, Italy. With Maestro Elio Raffaeli and Roberto Cammozzo.


Park Works

  1. Whispering Hand, drawing on steel with fire, 48” x 96”

  2. Flower Dance, drawing on steel with fire, 48” x 96”

  3. Birdie, drawing on steel with fire, 48” x 96”

  4. Flock of Birds, drawing on steel with fire, 48” x 96”

  5. Effortless Being, drawing on steel with fire, 48” x 96”

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    Blue Head Looking
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