Jennifer Keeler-Milne, Artist residency at Mount Wilson

In News May 25, 2022

Above image: View of the gardens at Mount Wilson, photograph by Jennifer Keeler-Milne

“The vibrant season

Chroma of amber and rust

Nature’s masterpiece”

Robyn Noble

Jennifer Keeler-Milne has recently been undertaking a residency at The Old School, Mount Wilson, delivering workshops for local creatives and employing the vast array of nature as inspiration for new artworks.

In 2019, The Old School at Mount Wilson commenced its volunteer based, not for profit artist in residence program. The one month residency aims to share the beauty and diversity of Mount Wilson, providing an opportunity for emerging and established artists to engage with the local community, and environment.

Throughout May, artist Jennifer Keeler-Milne has brought her practice to the Mount Wilson area, offering a mutual sharing of inspiration between artist and community. Jennifer has been producing new works from The Old School studio and led a concertina sketchbook workshop for local creatives.

Jennifer evokes an atmospheric depiction of nature. For the past decade she has made captivating its mysticism and evocative character her underlying objective. The luminescence of autumn colours has transformed the Mount Wilson scenery, inspiring a series of new original works.

The beauty and colour is almost overwhelming. I found in the first week that I need to look down and felt consoled by a line in a Wendell Berry poem that said “The ground is wise”…. My first drawing and painting was of a dandelion and then a lichen covered branch, then a small painting of moss.

Jennifer’s studio at The Old School will be open to the public this Saturday May 28^th.

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