Jean A. Humphrey: My Roots Run Deep in the Prairie Soil

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Jean A. Humphrey, “My Roots Run Deep in the Prairie Soil,” 2023

(courtesy of the gallery)

My Roots Run Deep in the Prairie Soil is a limited retrospective of Medicine Hat artist Jean A. Humphrey.  Jean began experimenting with acrylics in the early sixties, painting the prairie landscapes of Coleville, Saskatchewan. From those first explorations to the present day, Jean has embodied a quintessential artist; prolific, driven and humble. Her tenacity has fueled her visual art journey, investigating a multitude of genres and mediums throughout the last sixty years. Jean has created thousands of works, evolving her practice through explorations of various genre’s such as impress impressionism, abstraction, and expressionism. This exhibition provides a sample of Jean’s artistic endeavours, showcasing a vast variety of works from large charcoal drawings such as My Hand and Foot, to studies of cattle using acrylic crayon to huge abstract paintings on tarp canvas. 

My Roots Run Deep in the Prairie Soil represents a woman’s courage to follow her intuition and visually expresses a deeply rooted passion, allowing it to surface and then flow. These twenty-nine works are a glimpse into the extraordinary life of Jean: a strong, kind, admirable, loving, creative, family oriented person, with extraordinary abilities.