Jeralyn Victoria

"Returning to watercolor after several years is a means of visual alchemy of both personal and shared experience. Through abstraction and primitive forms this internal landscape feels familiar, culturally ambiguous, and playful at once."

This body of watercolor work is focused on alchemizing difficult internal and political landscapes into something beautiful and hopeful. The artist uses familiar personal mythology to talk about both deeply individual and the universal experience.

The artist uses irreverent watercolor techniques such as embossing, digitally cataloguing layers to sketch, and dragging ink with unexpected materials such as melted ice and tears through traditional watercolor on paper.

Growing up in North Dakota, Jeralyn Victoria, a graduate of MCAD, is influenced by familiar Midwest metaphor combined with unexpected materials to create a new collection of watercolors. Weather quilt metaphor for safety & protection, moths representing shadow work, or sacred geometry, these paintings are the origin DNA for textile design, large scale murals and wall coverings.