Jeanne Borofsky — Artist’s Biography

Studio: Groton, MA
Born: Plymouth, NH | 1944

Jeanne Borofsky, BFA, MFA, is internationally recognized, with paintings, prints, and drawings in numerous museums and private collections.  She was born in New Hampshire, and after several moves settled in Groton with her husband Jerr. They have two grown children, Nate and Anna. Jeanne has been a practicing artist for over 50 years. She has (and does) make art with watercolors, oils, encaustics, rubber stamps, collages, and prints (traditional, photographic, encaustic & digital). Represented by Gallery Sitka and Gallery Twist, a member of The Boston Printmakers, the Depot Square Artists, the Monotype Guild of New England, and New England Wax (past president), Jeanne has also been a digital imaging specialist and graphic designer.

Artist’s Statement

“Most of my current work is encaustic collage. Encaustic – painting with hot colored beeswax and damar resin – is a medium that was used by the ancient Greeks as far back as 400 BC.

Having grown up in the country I have always looked to nature to center myself, and to restore balance to my mind and my world. I spend time in the woods or by the water letting the rhythms of the world become part of me.

My encaustic constructions usually start with encaustic monotypes. There is a monotype mounted to the panel, and I add origami boxes folded mostly from more encaustic monotypes. I spend a lot of my time folding, which is a kind of meditation, and then more time constructing and adding stamps, maps, bits of asemic writing and other ephemera to create my own world. I have often felt the way Alexander Calder felt when he said, “I want to make things that are fun to look at, that have no propaganda value whatsoever.”

I love the way beeswax creates both physical and visual depth and translucency to the work – adding to the mystery and magic I’m trying to convey. Whatever I put into my art, it always includes the joy of creation, the love of art, and the happiness in my ability to create it.”