Portrait of a young girl with orange swimsuit and yellow sun hat with feet in the sand looking over the lake water under green shade all by herself.

COVID Summer At Lake Harriet

A blend of colors to give an impression of water 

Green Sea 

A watercolor painting of geometrical shapes, fitting together to resemble a mosaic. Each shape is a different color, and fragments of a poem are glued onto the shape to create a whole.

Blocks

Over Her Shoulder

A painting of a young girl in a white dress holding a glass umbrella looking into a darkening wood, and she is deciding is she will stay in the sunshine or follow the path into the unknown. 

Girl with a Glass Umbrella 

A square oil painting showing a small red coat floating in artic waters next to an iceberg. 

Coat

Painting of a volcano, a large caldera surrounded by Taal Lake in the Philippines.  In the background are overhead grayish and blue clouds, multi-colored sky ranging from glows of yellow to orange to red.  There are also receding distant mountains. The foreground shows some greenery and a reddish tree.

Taal volcano

A painting of an ordinary alley at night, lit by a solitary garage light

Maddie's Light

White wooden framed, acrylic painting of autumn's beauty - wandering stream over rocky waterway centers the image's story of two people crossing over on a dark, white highlighted foot-bridge, surrounded with mossy flowers in the foreground embracing greens, oranges, yellows creating leaves of the changing season's trees.

Autumn Joy

An abstract circle of pleasant hues on a white canvas.

Heavenly Body

A portrait of a woman whose whole face smiles while her eyes are closed.

Clea

Fox Breaking

Earth from outer space is represented on birch plywood with acrylic and distemper paints in earth and cloud colors.  Gouged with a router across this landscape are random curved lines, spray painted aluminum, representing pipelines and channels of industrial waste which are destroying the natural environment.  Upper right of this earth is curved where it meets outer space.

Earth Shard 

A painting of a yellow cabin surrounded by trees, in a quiet, early-morning setting. The sky behind the cabin glows with orange, yellow, and blue hues. There is a red hand print on the window, and a pool of red visible underneath the door. The number '28' is hung on the front of the cabin, beneath a glowing outdoor light. 

WHAT HAPPENED IN CABIN 28

This is a painting of a steel bridge using colors found in a 2-dimensional image in an attempt to make it 3-dimensional.

A painting of the historic warehouse district in Bergen Norway, looking toward distant blue-green hills. Warehouse colors are maroon and buff.

Toward Bergen NO harbor

Nelly

A painting of a young girl walking under a waterfall of surrounded by trees.  Blues and black and greens and white.

Waterfall

A painting with lots of color, the word "money," a paint brush, abstract shapes, and line drawings of dollar bills.

Money

A nature painting on a vinyl record; a blue pond full of lily pads adorned with pink lillies and starlight.

Tiana

an outline of red feet next to a mass of blue, red, browns and whites. something slowly exploding.

Suspended Collapse

A round shape representing Earth created from a colorful and textured scanned painting palette - the thumbhole filled with blue sky and clouds - all surrounded with black sky, big dipper, Southern Cross and moon in the first phase of an eclipse.

Palette Earth

Bringing jazz into an abstract form with colors of black, white and earth tones.

Take Five

A portrait of a blue feminine figure with tentacles for hair, a sullen look on her face, cigarette and joint hanging out of her mouth, and “X’s” over her nipples; on a solid orange background. 

We came all this way in the back of a goddamn pickup. 

A painting of a corner of a hotel room. Through the window a beach under the sun can be seen . In the room, a TV is playing weather channel over a dresser, a couch and a desk. An inspiring painting is on the wall.

I miss vacations

A painting of a family room with kitchen and a piano in background, and a desk with a lamp in foreground where 2 dolls are making mother's day cards.

Happy Mother's Day

A painting of a tall and long window, centered on the paper. The warm sun drapes over the sill. The interior cannot be seen beyond the dark glass.

Museum Window

This is an oil painting of a heart shaped potato.

Agnes's Potato

A mermaid floating in the waters of her life.  Although the digital image of an encaustic piece are limited so rarely show the translucency and depth of beeswax art... zoom in and you may find surprises beneath of top layer of your perception! Look for the metallic shine around her, look for the images embedded in the golden glow above her, and find the depth in the waves that support her! Peace.

Floating Mermaid

A role model to millions 

A painting of a soft, pastel sunset over the ocean with the waves rolling up onto the sand.

COVID Summer At Lake Harriet, 2020

Jean Anne Bolin