Gallery 10 presents Jeannie Vodden as October’s Featured Artist

Jeannie Vodden will be the featured artist at Gallery 10 during October.  Her paintings will hang at the gallery, 15 Eureka St., Sutter Creek, the whole month.  A reception to honor Jeannie will be held on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2-5 P.M. and everyone is invited to attend, to meet Jeannie, to munch and sip, and to see the wonderful qualities of Jeannie’s paintings.

Jeannie Vodden is most versatile in watercolor.  She often starts with just three colors, and expands her palette only minimally as she develops a painting.  Jeannie paints portraits, still life, florals, landscapes and fantasy.   She loves to paint the complex textures, forms and patterns found in nature. 

 “I have been painting and drawing faces and portraits since I was very young.  From the first it was exciting, even surprising, to see a likeness appearing on the paper before me.”  She loves to bring a touch of fantasy into a painting.  Her glazing technique with color is well worth examining as you look at her work.

Be sure to stop at Gallery 10 on Oct. 3, or any time during the month, to see these wonderful works of art.  Jeannie Vodden lives in Jackson and loves to share her technique through demonstrations, workshops, and classes.  

Jeannie Vodden

Jeannie Vodden's interest in the variety of textures and patterns found in both natural and man-made objects is the starting point for most of her paintings.  She adds natural light, sometimes a figure, occasionally a dash of fantasy, and pulls it all together with a limited palette.

Her preference for the complex play of form and light is balanced by her use of a very simple palette.  Starting with only three colors, and seldom using more than six, she glazes many transparent layers.   Each layer modifies the last, changing the color and adding a multi-leveled glow.   Though the process takes some patience, practice and understanding, the visual effects are revealed in an unusual feeling of depth of color.  The results are stunning and unique.

Jeannie is a popular instructor of watercolor.  She has taught workshops throughout California and in Wyoming and Washington State for 20 years.  She enjoys demonstrating her watercolor techniques to art and community organizations and finds the challenge of judging art competitions rewarding and inspiring. 

She has shown her work in galleries and businesses in Sacramento, Lodi and Stockton and throughout California.

A few of her many awards and activities include: 

·         Acceptance into National Watercolor Society 95^th Exhibition 2015

·         Awards in the Stockton Art League’s competition at the Haggin Museum

·         Acceptance into the prestigious 2000 and 2002 Crocker Kingsley competition at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, Ca.

·         Awards at the “California Works” fine art competition at the California State Fair

·         Honorable Mentions at the KVIE Annual Art Auction

·         Many Best of Show and People’s Choice Awards

·         The State of California has purchased two of her paintings for its archives.

For years she demonstrated in the “California Works” Fine Art Show at the California State Fair, sharing her work and talking to visitors of the well-regarded fine art venue.

In the fall she opens her home studio to the public for the Amador County Art Studio Tours. 

Jeannie designs a theme fair window at the Amador County Fair in Plymouth, CA each year for the Amador Stars, the local Cancer support organization.

For 2010 and 2011 and 2014 wine release she has designed unique and beautiful fine art wine labels for Young’s Vineyard in the Shenandoah Valley, California.

In 2015 Jeannie’s work was published in both Pratique des Art Magazine in France and Artist Palette Magazine in Australia.