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On display at the St. Louis Bridge Center

12/10/2014

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   Starting December 8th, 2014, the artwork of S. Jewell S. McGhee will be on display at the St. Louis Bridge Center in University City, MO. 
    The St. Louis Bridge Center provides our community an opportunity and education to enjoy the game of Bridge  more fully and regularly.
     For more information and membership details visit them at www.stlouisbridge.org
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Original framed pieces are on sale ranging in prices from $100 to $500.   Prints are also available through inquiry of the artist via the website: www.jewellmcgheeartworkportfolio.weebly.com or the facebook page: The Artwork of S. Jewell S. McGhee.
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    S. Jewell S. McGhee

    Jewell is an artist who has come to be known also as an author.  She often writes a reflection to go with her art pieces and has been paraphrasing the psalms for many years.

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    S. Jewell S. McGhee likes to call her art “painting with pencils.” She first started using colored pencils to help her mother write names on lunch bags for school. “My mom would pick matching themes for the names on our bags; all balloons, or sunrises, or sometimes just geometric shapes. She always made them so beautiful; a plain brown bag lunch was, all at once, a love note, a story, a hug, and simple colors to enlighten us for the rest of the day.”  These bags also became a constant reminder that art was simple, attainable, and a necessary part of every day.

                “I always start with a story.” Every time you hear a story you have a physical (tears, a chuckle, or a smile) or mental (confusion, contentment) reaction which is unable to be explained in words alone. “I like to use abstract art as a medium to dive deeply into the complicated mess of a story and discover something more about it and about myself.” She follows the flow of a story and finds the shapes and colors that express its fundamental emotions and questions.

                Jewell uses her art to interpret the stories of Shakespeare, the newspaper, the Bible, and her own life. “As I grapple with Hamlet, I see lines-sharp and violent-cutting through relationships and into love.  There is red: obviously for blood, but also for love (a riddle itself). A golden crown, a golden son; a golden sun breaking through ghosts, clouds, and lives to reveal blackness and blood.”  How black is the blackness of hate? What texture is grace? What shape is confusion, or desperation, or promise? These are the questions these pieces ask.

Copyright S. Jewell S. McGhee 2016, All rights reserved.

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    • Available >
      • Colored Pencil Gallery >
        • London Series
        • Hazel Series
        • Suffering Servant Series
        • Ruth Series
        • Theophany Series
        • Acts Series
        • Promise Series
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      • Colored Pencil Gallery >
        • My Life's Story, in 3 parts
        • People Series
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        • Colored Pencil >
          • Psalms and Proverbs
          • Suffering Servant Series
          • Ruth Series
          • Theophany Series
          • Acts Series
          • Promise Series
          • Covenant Seminary Prayer Chapel
        • Nativity Series
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