Voices of Experience - Jeanne Mackenzie

Spacious Skies - Cody 12 x 16” Oil

“I think that some of the best paintings are those that have a very simple subject,
a subject that you would normally just drive right by. That is the eye of the artist- to take the mundane or simple and make it an exquisite composition or inviting mood.”

We first met the talented Jeanne Mackenzie in Dubois, Wyoming, where we had been hired to teach a painting workshop by the Susan K. Black Foundation. Jeanne is one of the regular instructors there and always has a large group of avid students with her whenever she ventures out to paint. She is a terrific teacher, a skilled artist and an all-around nice person to paint with! Jeanne lives in Colorado and often paints the western landscape when she isn’t off traveling the world in search of new inspiration. She has won numerous national painting awards for her work and holds signature status in the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters, the American Women Artists, and the…