Jean Marshal Biography

Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Jean Marshall worked as a teacher and later as a social worker.   In 1979 after moving from B.C, she started a hand knit cottage industry designing for Ontario companies and her retail store in Stratford. Later she returned to teaching and pursued further education.

University of Western Ontario, Linguistics graduate, 1995.

In 2005 she began painting & soon used her love of one art to influence another.

In 2008, she travelled to Italy and France where she studied privately under Madame Monique Faillard, and later took various art courses with the AGO.   Her paintings can be found in Japan, China, France, Germany, Holland, Australia, United States and in many Canadian cities. Jean’s paintings are diverse with “seascapes, still life, abstracts, and landscapes.

TEXTILE ART recognition:
London Free Press, Fashion page 1982
Miss Universe 1982, NBC Today Show, New York
Toronto Art Guild, 1984

Artist Statement

I grew up in Newfoundland where artistry was the land and sea.

As a child, I spent countless hours searching through wild brambles and climbing the wind ridden trees. The mossy rocks and trodden paths interweaved with delicate pink flocked flowers behind our saltbox home.

These paths lead to a river where I claimed a special rock as a perfect chair. I’d sit and observe the tumbling rush of water bubbling around. as if dancing to the Lilypond a gaze away.

Fond childhood memories became part of my adult artistry when I started to paint. Painting is wonderful, emotional and communicative with nature and the world.

As an artist, I hope my paintings speak quiet words in pictures to understand the love of our environment and the things we forget to take time and notice in a simple way.  Each work has a story and often hidden pictures, intended to save thought for our environment like childhood memories.

Painting has become a way of life, meaningful, with every stroke and dab of colour.  Each piece is executed with the finest of pigments and structure for lasting treasures long into the future.