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Dreams Come True
It was doing The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron in 1996 that brought me back to my art. I want to share an exercise I did in July of ‘96 that I’ve kept all these years. The task was to write a letter...
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The Night I Died: The Whole Story, Part 1
This is part 1 of a 2 part series. Read part 2 here: The Night I Died: The Whole Story, Part 2On March 8, 1996 I awoke in the night feeling odd. I went into the bathroom and hemorrhaged. In a split...
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The Night I Died: The Whole Story, Part 2
This is part 2 of a 2 part series. Read part 1 here: The Night I Died: The Whole Story, Part 1The medic closest to my ear on that night I died apologized for the hospital. It had a bad reputation and,...
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Why Aren’t My Paintings PRETTY For God’s Sake?
A reader wrote to me the other day with a simple request. She suggested that I incorporate some of my paintings into the blog sometimes, “… and talk about the inspiration, method, series etc.” She...
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So You Think Artists Are Lazy?
A reader wrote recently expressing an interest in both my paintings and my process (see previous post Is There More to Tell?). While her interest lay mainly in my New Mexico work, her query has made me...
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Stripped Down and Broken Open: Giving Birth to Art
This is the third in a series of posts taking you back through a history of my work, from its very realistic roots and on to my abstracts (see previous posts Why Aren’t My Paintings PRETTY For God’s...
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Of Transitions and the Place Between
This is the fourth in a series of posts taking you back through a history of my work, from its very realistic roots and on to my abstracts (see previous posts Why Aren’t My Paintings PRETTY For God’s...
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An Uncomfortable But Compelling Push-Pull
This is the fifth in a series of posts taking you back through a history of my work, from its very realistic roots and on to my abstracts (see previous posts Why Aren’t My Paintings PRETTY For God’s...
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New Mexico Isn’t for Sissies
This is the sixth in a series of posts taking you back through a history of my work, from its very realistic roots and on to my abstracts (see previous posts Why Aren’t My Paintings PRETTY For God’s...
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The Dark Horse Series
This is the seventh in a series of posts taking you back through a history of my work, from its very realistic roots and on to my abstracts (see previous posts Why Aren’t My Paintings PRETTY For God’s...
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The Art of Becoming
This is the eighth in a series of posts taking you back through a history of my work, from its very realistic roots and on to my abstracts (see previous posts Why Aren’t My Paintings PRETTY For God’s...
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A World of Blue
This is the ninth in a series of posts taking you back through a history of my work, from its very realistic roots and on to my abstracts (see previous posts Why Aren’t My Paintings PRETTY For God’s...
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What Robert Motherwell Said…
This is the tenth, and last, in a series of posts taking you back through a history of my work, from its very realistic roots and on to my abstracts (see previous posts Why Aren’t My Paintings PRETTY...
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Under the Truchas Sun
Years ago now, although in some ways it still seems like yesterday, I lost my marriage. I wrote about it in some of my first blog posts (see Into the Wilderness ). We all know what that kind of loss is...
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Jeane George Weigel’s Opening!
Yes, my opening. It’s finally happening and here’s the press release. I’m sharing it with you because some of you don’t know this part of my story. But there’s more after it so keep on reading:Jeane...
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High Road Artist: My Story Begins
My name is Jeane George Weigel and I am a working artist living in a tiny Spanish Land Grant village in the mountains of northern New Mexico. There are many other serious artists here and we earn our...
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My Re-Birthday
On March 8, 1996 I died. The universe had been trying to get my attention for years but since I hadn’t listened, it finally got heavy-handed with me. This is what happened.I was living somebody else’s...
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Leap of Faith
I say the universe got my attention when I hemorrhaged and it did but, in spite of the fact my doctors insisted I take 3 months off, I went back to work in one week. I’d been taken to my knees and I...
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Into the Wilderness
As far as love goes, like most girls of the 50’s, I grew up believing in the fairytale—a settled constant with one true love that lasts forever and is our all—a knight in shining armor who will take...
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Of the Land
So there I was in the desert of southern Utah. My paintings weren’t selling because this new population hadn’t yet responded to my work, and the place didn’t really fit me. But the land was stunning...
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