ONE WEEK ART SALE!! 45% discount on original art

Dear Friends and Art lovers,

 We have been through two years of the Pandemic since my show in November 2019. I am so glad I did it then. At the time I felt this compulsion to get it out there then, and then came 2020…

 As a result, I have been unable to have a follow-up show, and although the Yoga cards have been selling steadily, not being able to show my artwork has been disappointing. I still have work available from the 2019 show, so for this week I am selling a selection of these at hugely reduced prices! Please take a look and see if there is something that you would like. I am happy to arrange a viewing if you are keen. All the work is on my website and a virtual show of the artworks are there too if you would like to take another look.

 I am working on new artwork, with a new direction which I am enjoying, although momentum has been rather interrupted with the demands of life. I am aiming for a next show towards the end of 2022.

 I trust you are all well and negotiating your new realities with deep breaths and groundedness. May you all enjoy the festive season with friends and family.

 Thank you for your support and interest.

 Best wishes

Pen xx

A quick update

Dear Friends,

Phew, the world has certainly changed since my exhibition last year. On some intuitive level I knew it had to get done last year… I felt compelled by some inner need to ensure finality. This time last year I was madly planning how to complete it all. Bruce said I should postpone. No way!

As I forged ahead, I learned that curating my own show was a mammoth task and took an enormous amount of energy. But, the energy of the universe did seem to be flowing and allowed it to happen.

I can’t believe now that it all came together and that I managed to get it done. In fact, it worked out better than I could have hoped.

The space was made for the exhibition. The accompanying yoga cards that accompanied the exhibition were a big success, despite some teething problems with the printers. We are investigating an ongoing, online platform retail solution. I will keep you posted, but in the meantime, anyone can contact me should they be interested in buying a set. Covid has slowed many elements of life down, but some things like online yoga are flourishing and we think this momentum will continue.

I received inspired advice about preserving the exhibition virtually in its full capacity, so it is now loaded onto my website and can be viewed anytime here  - anyone who missed the show or would like to revisit it can do so anytime.

There are paintings and prints still available for sale. Initially, I made prints available at A3. Since then I have printed the “Dandelion Breath“ to the original painting size so that edition, for example, is in a larger format. If you are the first person to request a print of a painting, you get to decide the format size of that print edition.

After working on one concept for the last ten years, it’s been lovely to have a change and I am enjoying exploring new ideas. Before lockdown was announced I had stretched four canvasses on lovely Belgian linen and got going on some new work in my Woodstock studio. We moved to our farm for lockdown  so initially it took me a while to get my space sorted and find some momentum, but I eventually got into a working rhythm in my farm studio. I haven’t been able to go into my Woodstock studio for months… and I miss the space but have settled into this new farm routine and have started exciting new work.

I am working on the relationship between internal and external realities of the same subject matter, starting with a lovely Overberg landscape. The feeling of expansive space here has been balm and a crucial antidote to lockdown. As we are naturally so isolated it also doesn’t feel too different from what it normally feels like being on the farm. The main difference is that we have not left the farm to go backwards and forwards to Cape Town. Our biggest excursions are to buy milk at the nearby dairy and a shopping trip about every ten days…

Painting doesn’t always get a look in as there always lots of things to get sorted on the farm.

We have had our time filled with DIY, planting, roof maintenance and fixing our greenhouse. I have never cooked so much in my life! Some underutilised skills have been honed and I have some delicious recipes at the ready.

I have loved doing frequent online yoga classes several times a week and that has been a lovely adjunct to completing the yoga training course I graduated from early this year. Not sure where that is taking me yet or when I will teach my own classes, but so much is unclear that we really just take each day as it comes and have to have faith that we are exactly where we are meant to be right now.

Trusting you are all well and finding your way in these interesting times. They are a challenge to our inner being, but we are certainly learning as we go. I recently heard this saying:

Happiness is a state between having too much and too little.

I think we have all been aware of this during lockdown and have all had to look at what we value and how we need to help those who surround us who are less fortunate. It is also about our gratitude for own blessings.

Wishing you all trust, clarity and kindness as you navigate forward without fear and anxiety.

Please contact me if you are interested in any works. I am, as always, open to discussing payment plans on both paintings and prints.

Lots of Love,

Pen

Music Makes Miracles: The HeadStart Music Trust

Penelope Jack will be donating all proceeds from The Subtle Body exhibition to The HeadStart Music Trust, which provides musical opportunities for children in impoverished rural areas of South Africa.

Music Makes Miracles. The main goal is to provide music education opportunities and outreach programs for poor and needy children in impoverished, rural areas of South Africa.

Yoga in Art - The Confluence of Energy & Light

Cape Town can look forward to a unique exhibition during November this year. Cape Town artist, Penelope Jack, will be exhibiting 80 original and engaging artworks – the result of 10 years work.  

 “My current work is an in-depth exploration of yoga through painting - the connection between the physical and the spiritual,” says Penelope.

 The artworks depict the yoga poses (asanas), energy centres (chakras), hand gestures (mudras), breathing practices (pranayamas) and meditations of Integral Hatha Yoga.

 “I naturally focus on detail,” explains Penelope, “- the result of my trained jeweller’s eye. But at the same time, I want to convey the inner energy of yoga, so the works dance a fascinating path between realism and expression.”

 Penelope’s artistic grounding started with Waldorf primary school education. She excelled in Art at St Andrews school and studied Fine Art in Jewellery Design at the University of Stellenbosch. After graduating she worked as an independent jeweller and supplemented her income in the salt mines of the DTP and magazine design worlds. While raising a family she worked as a graphic designer, doing corporate logos, label design, brochures and magazines.

 Any spare time was filled with etching, pottery, life-drawing and painting courses with various well-known artists over the years, as well as courses in astrology and yoga.

 Penelope explains: “From the outset I aimed to express universal truths through my explorations of the elements of yoga. This has gone hand in hand with my personal exploration and study of Integral Hatha yoga, something I have practiced almost daily (and occasionally taught) for over twenty-five years.”

 The desire to share her knowledge of yoga has prompted Penelope, together with yoga teacher Jennifer Stephens to also produce a set of cards called ‘Chakra Yoga Cards ’. These cards use her artworks to explain the methodology behind the different poses, breathing exercises and hand gestures. Besides being beautiful to look at, there is an incredible wealth of information on each of them.

 “I have always enjoyed colour and like to express myself with bold colour - both in how I wear colour and work with colour. The interplay of light and energy, which gives our world form and colour, continues to hold unlimited fascination for me,” she says.

 This exciting exhibition will be held from 7th November until the 5th of December 2019 at 196 Victoria Road, Woodstock. The original artworks will be for sale and entrance is via a voluntary donation. All proceeds going to The HeadStart Trust, which provides musical opportunities for children in impoverished rural areas of South Africa.