Collection: Jean Gumpper

Biography

Jean Gumpper was born in Hawaii, grew up in Michigan and spent time in several states before moving to Colorado.  Jean is a Senior Lecturer and Artist in Residence at Colorado College. Her prints are represented by several galleries nationally and internationally. In 2000, she received a Visual Artist Fellowship award from the Colorado Council on the Arts. 

Jean has taught international print workshops at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and she has participated in in artist residencies at Anderson Center, Art Print Residence in Spain, Goldwell Museum, Grand Canyon and Rocky Mountain National Parks, Mackinac Island State Park, and the Ucross Foundation. 

Artist Statement

My work hovers between representation and abstraction and often focuses on the edges between water and land. Walking, hiking, and looking are the beginnings of my prints. This contemplative, restorative practice is an intimate and direct approach to visualizing nature. 

I’m intrigued with the rhythms of mark making and the possibilities of color, texture, and movement. I hope to capture the sense of being in the landscape, hearing the sounds, feeling the air.  I work within a structure, the tradition of woodcut, which allows me to freely explore the layers and shifts within it.  These limitations of process offer unlimited possibility.