Welcome to my website.  I am a working studio artist now but have traveled a circuitous path to being able to spend full time working on art.  My original major in college was art but I had three children that I needed to support so I altered my course and got my BA in English and did my graduate studies in English also.  This allowed me more flexibility in the job market.  After working in several fields I opened a childrens bookstore which I operated for 10 years.  Upon closing the bookstore about 11 years ago I began setting up my studio and acquiring skills in the fiber arts and surface design areas.  During the previous years I could only work part time as a watercolorist.  With my newfound freedom I have been exploring various media and working to create a body of work using mixed media and surface design techniques.

 

The focus of much of my work has been an exploration of unseen, sometimes microscopic, images in nature.  My use of materials is often non traditional.  I especially like using soft materials to depict hard objects.  Textures in nature and in the work itself are of primary interest.  I am an admirer of fine art crafts and employ many of the materials and techniques in my work.

 

I start with an idea and then select the materials I wish to use.  It is then that I must devise the techniques to solve the problems presented by using nontraditional materials in a mixed media presentation.  It's about process and problem solving for me in great measure.  The craftsmanship exhibited in fine art craft such as glass art, knotting, bead weaving, wood working and basket making is as much an influence on my work as is painting and sculpture.

 

My work has been included in Fiber Works in Oklahoma City four times, Fiber Focus in St. Louis twice, in Art Quilts at the Sedgwick in Philadelphia, Voices in Fabric in Oklahoma City, Vision Makers in Oklahoma three times, Edge Art Now in Oklahoma City three times.  In the fall of 2005 my work was in a solo show in Oklahoma City and Tulsa entitled Fettered Spirits.  My work is in private collections in Oklahoma, Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania and is in the recently completed Reynolds Boy Scout Resource Center in Tulsa. 

 

Jean Ann Fausser, Tulsa, Oklahoma