JYM’s ART

Drawings
Landscapes oil
Landscapes watercolor
Figures
Online courses
Biography
Contact



Drawings


Landscapes oil


Landscapes watercolor


Figures


Online courses


Life drawing is more than an exercise; it is, when done diligently, a recording of life and hence movement, breath, beauty and more. In the series of courses I have created,  I want to help you develop a syntax that sees the structures of forms beyond their appearance and that can convey emotion. These courses are a mix of masterclass and reviewing the basics. Why? If in singing, you master the 'bello canto' techniques, but sing a false note during the aria, the harmony is broken!

Drawing is a lesson of humility; it requires a state of presence, being vigilant that formulae and solutions do not replace the actual experience. Elegance of line will come with harmony and the search for truth. Ruthlessness and risk is required equally to abandon and change that which does not work. (You only have to wipe out a few lines with a rag, to start anew).

Drawing is like a life philosophy and a game of opposites:  slowness and rapidity, parts and the whole, negative space and the subject...

It is a tool of comparison and understanding, of empowerment and self-expression. You want to access your unconscious and your heart for your line to have meaning. 

This is a classic course with my insights of drawing from 30 years and teaching for 16. Visual and expressive meaning comes from the intention and the attention you apply to your line, at the same time allowing immediacy.

We will be working from the inside and looking at how the different shapes of the body and of the face articulate, which may make less sense at first, but leads you to a more abstract, objective and shape-based vision.


Biography


JYM was born in and raised in Germany, to a German mother and an English father. After schooling in Munich, curious to discover the other culture, she studied in London. First she learned science, a concession to her parents. She dared to drop out after visiting a Rodin exhibition, so moved to have seen the feelings and movement in the form. She was accepted for the preparatory course at Heatherley's School of Art in London and then did her Fine Arts diploma at Camberwell College of Arts, one of the 5 art schools in London.

Very quickly attracted to the live model, she went beyond the academic nude by searching for an underlying framework translating the soul of the model. She combines emotional state and rigor, all revealed by strong contrasts of light. Her influences are Giacometti, Frank Auerbach and Rembrandt.

Three years after her admission, the management closed the model room. JYM returns “to the sources” and spends her time in museums copying the masters. There, she discovers the harmony of lines that respond to each other, especially in the work of Raphael.
This is the time of the first landscapes, always on the motif. JYM seeks to capture the light, the poetry of space and moment. The space of nature becomes the space of painting, land of personal adventure. Transcribing with touches of color the mysterious and indefinable nature.

For 30 years JYM has been relentlessly refining the line and harmonies. In permanent research between the image of the model and what she feels about it, simplifying to transmit a message and at the same time leave room for reverie.
The work of the figures translates a fragility and tenderness, fractures and strengths; the work of the landscapes an escape into the infinity of the moment, the poetry of the distant.


Upcoming Exhibitions


Training

  • 1987-88 Heatherley's School of Art, London
  • 1988-91 Camberwell College of Arts and Crafts, London

Personal Exhibitions

  • Oct 2023 Confidences du fleuve, Galerie les Montparnos, Paris
  • Sept 2021 Reflets d’un Instant, Le Mur, Moret-sur-Loing
  • Juin 2019 Été Infini, la Petite Galerie,rue de Seine, Paris 
  • Mars 2019 L'être aux nues, La Petite Galerie,rue de Seine, Paris 
  • Nov 2018 JYM, Château Trousse-Barrière, Briare 
  • Juin 2018 Lignes Galantes, La Petite Galerie, rue de Seine, Paris 
  • Juin 2017 Edges, La Petite Galerie, rue de Seine, Paris 
  • Avril 2017 JYM, La Main d'Or, Paris 
  • Juin 2016 Reflections, La Petite Galerie, rue de Seine Paris 
  • Juin 2015 Interface, La Petite Galerie, rue de Seine, Paris
  • Juin 2014 Passages, la Petite Galerie, rue de Seine, Paris
  • Mars 2013 Repentir, la Petite Galerie, rue de Seine, Paris
  • Mars 2012 Ciel Intérieur 2, la Petite Galerie, Paris
  • Déc 2011 Traits Galants, Galerie Etienne de Causans, Paris
  • Nov 2010 Ciel Intérieur, la Petite Galerie, Paris
  • Nov 2007 Impres-city, la Petite Galerie, Paris
  • Sept 2000 Galerie Actee, Charenton-Le-Pont
  • Juin 1993 Moments of Seeing, Academy Club, London

Group Exhibitions

  • Juin 2023 Autre Jet, Villa des Arts, Paris
  • Mai 2022 Festival des Arts, Château de La Morlaye, Oise
  • Avril 2022 Corps Accords, Villa des Arts, Paris
  • Mai 2021 Élément terre, Prieuré de Pont-Saint-Loup, Moret-sur-Loing
  • Mai 2021 Figuré, Non Figuré, Le Mur, Dammarie-les-Lys
  • Mai 2021 Les RDV, Grange de Mussy, Adon
  • Mai 2020 JYM et JOSICK s’exposent, la Petite Galerie
  • Janv 2015 Rats des Champs, Château Trousse-Barrière, Briare
  • Mars 2014 Dessins, La Petite Galerie, Paris
  • Mai 2014 The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Londres
  • Mai 2013 The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhib Mall Galleries, London
  • Juin 2011 Biennale du Paysage, Cité des Arts, Paris
  • Janv 2010 ATYPIC chez Moments Artistiques, Paris
  • Sept 2009 Les Lignes du Corps, Greenlane Gallery, Paris
  • 2001-2003 Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells / The Gallery, Place des Vosges, Paris
  • Mars 2000 Cahiers de la Peinture, Paris
  • Mars 1993 LAING Landscape Competition, Mall Galleries London
  • Oct 1992 Alumni Exhibition, Schloss Buchof, Percha, Munich
  • Oct 1991 Inauguration Club Hive.5, October Gallery, London
  • Sept 1991 Camberwell Painters, Austin, Desmond & Phipps Gallery London