September 2024

Jeanne Dunn: Forest Bathing

Long-time FIG member Jeanne Dunn’s solo show, titled “Forest Bathing”, recently closed at the R. B. Stevenson Gallery in La Jolla, California.

"Night Forest Singing" 2024, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 192 in., 182.9 x 487.7 cm (4 panels)

In Dunn’s words, “My bold colors and semi-realistic forms take their cue from the idea of immersion in one’s sensations and individual experiences of an arboreal place. There’s a term for this in Japanese, where engaging in shinrin-yoku, or literally a “forest-bath,” is a time-honored practice of walking in the woods for its benefits to the mind and body. My intention is to subvert common assumptions about Nature and to celebrate its agency and omnipresence.”

"By offering the unexpected in form, shape, and color, these tree-filled ‘scenes’ aim to challenge our assumptions of what we might see along a wilderness trail. They express the joy of abandoning the familiar and encountering a new world that is vibrant, animated, and perhaps mysterious.”

"Treeforia" 2024, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 108in., 91.4 x 274.3 cm

"Exchange" 2024, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 in., 91.4 x 91.4 cm

"Risk it All ll" 2020, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 in., 182.9 x 121.9 cm