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As an artist, Jeanne Tennyson has worked professionally off and on since she was in her teens. She fell in love with art as a teenager in the required art class at her rural high school. Her work was noticed by locals and her interpretive, often whimsical style soon led to jobs where she was hired to paint murals on children’s walls.
Over the years art came in and out of her life as circumstances allowed. In her early twenty’s, a visit to a Picasso Museum in Paris changed her perspective on art. She found herself drawn to the lack of realism as well as the artistic nature of his work. Though it would be nearly 20 years before she would have the opportunity to put this inspiration into practice, it would eventually fill her mind when she paints.
Jeanne Tennyson opened a business painting murals and wall decor in her mid-thirties which was successful for five years. Due to an illness, she was forced to close that business and leave painting behind for a while. On her fiftieth birthday, she and her family moved to Amelia Island, Florida where she found herself with nothing appropriate to hang on the walls of her new home. She tentatively picked up her brush and began painting again. This time, painting for herself, she found herself drawn to interpretive and abstract art. The inspiration she found in the work of Picasso began to blossom.
She was soon asked to join a local co-op gallery. Her work is everything from whimsical to nearly realistic. Many of her pieces display landscapes of the sea or of marshy areas. She is drawn to abstract pieces in ocean layers of ocean colors. She has produced many paintings as commission for customers she has met over the last ten years. Her work can be seen in person at the Plantation Art Guild and Gallery inside the Omni Shops on the south end of Amelia Island. Her desire is to find homes for her art where they will be appreciated.