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Jane Bick MuddJuly 19, 2002 - September 30, 2002 |
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Biography:For the past 25 years, Jane Bick Mudd has lived on a farm east of Fulton, Missouri with her husband, Tom, and their three children. She was born and raised in St. Louis and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Fontbonne College in 1976. "In the 80's Tom and I built a home from scratch, had three children, farmed and worked at various jobs. I struggled throughout that time to continue painting whenever I could." In 1994, she received her Master of Fine Arts degree from University of Missouri, Columbia. Mudd is currently an instructor of painting and drawing at William Woods University in Fulton. Over the past decade the major subjects for Mudd's paintings have been the human figure and natural landscape. Her work has been shown and won awards throughout Missouri and other states. She has had solo and group shows in Columbia, Fulton, and St. Louis.
Artist's Statement:Painting portraits is an exhilarating process. An artist can lose him or herself and become the sitter! In a two or three hour sitting, the intensity of observation grows and there is the challenge to stay calm so the sitter feels relaxed. There are other challenges that are greater than this, of course, like getting a likeness and a composition that rhythmically works as a whole. For me, when the sitter is engaged in something, other challenges can be met with a greater concentration. When it is all over, the process and the end result might just appear to have been a casual encounter. Jane bick Mudd |
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