The Vault: Jeannette Parssi - Dreaming in Color

Artist Bio:
Jeannette Pomeroy Parssi (American, b. 1959)

Jeannette Pomeroy Parssi works with nature as inspiration, creating abstract landscape oil paintings with spontaneous, expressive gestures and a fusion of color.

The Ohio native found her path in 1994 when she left the corporate world to pursue art. She has lived in Chicago and South Florida, recently returning to the Midwest.

Jeannette received her BA from Kalamazoo College. She has studied with renowned artists Graham Nickson, dean of the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture; and Miraslov Antic, instructor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and continues to learn from national and international workshops.

In addition to being a professional artist, Jeannette is a teacher, a mentor and a supporter of the local arts scene. From 2004-2017, she founded and ran ArtStart, an arts education non-profit organization, delivering programming to underserved areas of Palm Beach County. Currently, in the Indianapolis area, Jeannette works as a drawing & painting instructor at Nickel Plate Arts where she was awarded the 2020 Nickel Plate Arts Educator of the Year. She continues to lead workshops at Ignite Studio in Fishers, where she was the artist-in-residence in 2019. She also teaches painting and drawing, in-person and online, at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan.

Jeannette’s work is collected worldwide and has been shown in solo and group events regionally and nationally since 1997. She currently resides in Fishers, IN.
To see more of Jeannette’s work, visit her website at jpparssi.com.

Artist Statement:

Dreaming in Color

When I close my eyes, I see vibrant colors moving and changing.

I love the adventure of mixing oil paint. I use my brush and palette knife to apply paint often blending it on the canvas. The suppleness and brilliance of the oil paint allows the colors of my dreams to become reality.

Working with nature as inspiration, I create abstract landscape paintings with spontaneous, expressive gestures. The work is about place and reflection transcending into abstraction allowing the viewer to travel wherever the painting takes them.

May viewing these paintings allow you to dream in color.