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| First Name | Jean |
| Last Name | Lightman |
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Speaking to the mission of her painting, Jean explains "I strive to capture the drama of the light and the magic of the relationship of the colors," says the artist. "Whether in the pale creamy glow of the light on peony blossoms or the dance of shadows across a sunlit marsh along the coast of Maine, I am continually awed by the magnificence of nature. The challenge of reducing a scene to its poetic essence without compromising its beauty, that elusive goal is what lures me day after day back to my easel."
Jean Lightman was born in Atlanta, Georgia into a family of would be painters. Both of her grandmothers painted at home but never developed their talents. While in college and graduate school, Lightman began drawing classes. After moving to Boston, she continued to seek drawing instruction. In a life drawing class she heard about Boston painter Paul Ingbretson, who was teaching art as it was taught in the 19th Century French Academy.
Lightman began her formal art training in Ingbretson's atelier in 1982 and studied nearly ten years with him. Ingbretson had been a student of R.H. Ives Gammell, himself a student of William Paxton. Paxton, in turn, had studied in Paris with the French master, Jean Leon Gerome. Paxton, and other Boston painters like him, combined their accurate drawing skills, acquired in the European ateliers, with an emphasis on vibrant color and light that they learned from the French Impressionists. They became known as the "Boston School" painters. Ingbretson led his students through the rigorous "Boston School" training, beginning with charcoal cast drawing, followed by still life painting, and finally portrait painting. Emphasis was placed upon accurate drawing with sensitivity to form and edges, strong light effect, vibrant color, and overall unity of light and shadow.
Currently, she paints floral still life and portraits in her studio and oil landscapes in the summer along the coast of Maine. She holds a Distinguished Artist membership at the Concord Art Association and Copley Artist standing at the Copley Society, Boston. Her artwork was included in the book, The Perfect Palette, by Bonnie Rosser Krims (Warner Books, 1998). In 1998, her painting hung in the Junior League of Boston's Decorator Show house and appeared in Traditional Home magazine. |
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