Jymme
Golden uses pastels to draw and paint landscapes, nature-based still lifes, and
birds and other animals, saying that these natural subjects “draw me in as I
create and re-create what I see and experience.”
This will
be her second LoLa art crawl, and she will be showing in the Minnehaha
Professional Building, 3960 Minnehaha Avenue, where she has her massage therapy
practice. After last year’s blistering heat during LoLa weekend, she is eager
to point out that the building comes with “air-conditioned comfort and lovely
bathrooms. Woo-hoo!”
She'll be sharing her space this year with polymer clay artist Laura Burlis and mixed-media book artist, me.
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| Minnehaha Falls |
What
inspires/informs your art?
I find inspiration, solace, renewal and unending
fascination in the natural world. This can be in my own back yard, the city
streets and parks or out in the “wilds” somewhere. I feel lucky to live in
Minneapolis, a city that within its borders has amazing wildlife and copious
numbers of lakes, rivers, creeks, wetlands, woods, etc. I’ve seen bald eagles,
hawks, foxes, coyotes, deer, loons, and many other creatures within minutes of
my home and occasionally in my own inner city yard. I walk, bike and snowshoe
around the city and get to observe wonderful things.
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| Superior Sunrise |
Then there are the drives out of town that bring me
to favorite places like Lake Superior and the North Shore, Minnesota prairies
and woodlands and the inspiration for my first pastels: Crex Meadows Wildlife
Area in Grantsburg, Wisconsin. There the fall colors and waterfowl migration
make me swoon.
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| Fair Fowl Firsts dyptych |
My return to drawing and painting is very much tied
to my spiritual practice including mindfulness meditation, which I have been
practicing since 2004. Paying attention to things as they are and seeing that
everything changes, always, everything is impermanent, strongly informs my life
and my art. When I am working on a drawing or painting it is a practice of
mindfulness.
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| Farmers Market Bounty |
What do
you like about LoLa? Why did you join?
Once I returned to painting, and I realized my
office was located on a main artery for LoLa, how could I resist? It seemed meant to be. I also live within the LoLa boundaries but on
the far west side near Sibley Park.
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| Superior Mergansers |
Are you
planning anything special for the art crawl?
May I repeat: air-conditioned comfort!, nice
bathrooms!, drinking water, and possibly more.
Last year I did a give-away drawing each day, which I will repeat,
giving away cards, T-shirts and giclee prints.
Last year I didn't have a demo per se but I put my sketch books out and
people really seemed to like looking through them so I will repeat that.
You can see more of Jymme’s artwork on her website,
and follow her works-in-progress on her Facebook page.
