About the Artist
Jeanne Reynolds Dail, Fine Artist Impressionist/Modern Realist Painter in Oils
Still Life, Landscapes, En Plein Air, and Portraiture within Representational Environments
Founder: Plein Air Painters of Everett and Beyond
BA Fine Art: California College of the Arts (CCA)
Continuing Education: Gage Academy of Art, Seattle; Whidbey Island Fine Art Studio
Member, Plein Air Painters of Washington Artists (PAWA)
"Best of Gage" Exhibit by Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA
Current, Local Exhibits
Custom Framing Artisan
Jeanne was born in Santa Monica, CA, in 1957 and grew up in the suburbs of Southern California where she received an AA in Advertising Art at Pierce College. She moved to Northern California where she received her BA in Ceramics with a minor in Painting Abstract Expressionism from the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts CCA) in 1982. She showed at the CCA gallery and at the Oakland Museum and sold her utilitarian works in four stores in the Bay Area and also apprenticed with two other ceramicists. When family life progressed with three children, she put her art on pause for 30 years. Jeanne then moved her family to WA state in the greater Seattle area where her art life began again.
She started by studying the art she'd always wanted to do as an Impressionist, Realist oil painter. She took her first steps with acrylic painting artist and instructor Angela Bandurka. She then studied foundational drawing and oil painting of figures and still life at Gage Academy of Art where she took one or two classes each quarter over several years. She then switched to workshops at the Whidbey Island Fine Art Studio in Langley, WA, where master artists such as Rose Frantzen and James Tennison provide workshops in an ideal setting with wonderful studio hosts.
In 2017, she began the informal group, the Plein Air Painters of Everett and Beyond in order to find like-minded painters who desired to go outside to paint but were intimidated in some way. Jeanne has created many plein air paintings throughout a variety of Everett parks and beaches as a result. Her landscape painting of the Forest Park Pedestrian Bridge was exhibited at the Lynnwood Convention Center in 2019 at the beginning of the Covid crisis. Her plein air paintings have been exhibited through local restaurants, bakeries, and cafes such as Anthony's Woodfire Grill, Sweet Petite Bakery, and Red Cup Cafe.
Jeanne currently works full time as an artisan custom framer for a local hobby store. She is open to commissions of still life, plein air and landscapes, and of people and animals within their environments. Please contact her through the link above for any inquiries and commissions.
