About this Product
A functional piece of art to spruce up your kitchen!
Heat sensitive to 130 degrees F.
5" x 5"
Jean Macaluso Fine Art
Meet the Maker
Jean graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with a degree in Art and Art History. She has a passion for photography with a special interest in the black and white process both traditional and digital. Other interests include painting, up cycling furniture into art pieces, wheel thrown pottery, hand built pottery, and clay sculpture. Her artwork can be found in the United States, France, and the Netherlands in collegiate, private collections and doctor’s offices.
As a Fine Art Photographer Jean uses many different cameras, from old or "toy" cameras to digital ones, to produce her images. She uses modern technology to print them digitally. Using this hybrid method allows her to use old methods to capture the image and modern technology to print it. Together this produces the look and feel that appeals to her aesthetically in black and white.
Working in color Jean captures nature’s essence by presenting visual beauty through a still moment in time providing the viewer with a simple, vivid, and direct experience.
As a painter Jean tries to evoke the feelings of a landscape or still life through abstract forms, lines, and colors, rather than an actual depiction of that scene. Using paint and her imagination along with her own reference photos she creates landscapes meant to take one to a different time and place.
Jean also loves to refurbish and up-cycle furniture into pieces of functional art. After using her skills to bring a piece back to life she paints the top surface with acrylic paint and resin in a fun and colorful way. These pieces serve as accent tables and allows one to live with art in a functional way.
Jean lives in Okatie, South Carolina with her husband and Golden Retriever Mylie.
