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Get Me Out of Here

By Teresa Jordan on March 27, 2020 in Jack Rabbits, Oil Paintings 0

As calm as I think I’m feeling through all this, a lot of nervous jackrabbits are turning up on my easel.

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Escape

By Teresa Jordan on March 14, 2020 in Jack Rabbits, Oil Paintings 0

Not sure exactly how this little oil sketch turned up on my easel today, but maybe it captures some of the angst many of us are feeling in this strange moment in time…

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Jack on the Run

By Teresa Jordan on March 13, 2020 in Jack Rabbits, Oil Paintings 0

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All Marie ever wanted in life was to work outside with horses and cattle and dogs. As a girl, she worked alongside her father and brother; when she married, she and her husband John Bell bought a neighboring ranch. Teresa wrote about Marie in both Cowgirls and Riding the White Horse Home. One of her stories–about women who rode through the country when she was a girl, breaking horses for pay–intrigued the novelist Molly Gloss, and served as the inspiration for her wonderful book, The Hearts of Horses.

The signature stamp Teresa uses on her prints is a Japanese hanko, or chop. For Westerners, a hanko is often designed with kanji – idiographic symbols – that represent the sounds of the syllables in the person’s last name. Because many words sound the same, the particular characters chosen have significance. When Teresa and her husband, Hal Cannon, visited Japan many years ago, they had the gift of staying with Kimono artists who generously selected kanji for “Jordan.” The top kanji translates as “clarity” or “purification,” and the bottom one represents “dawn” or “morning.” These kanji turned out to be auspicious, for more than a decade later Teresa began a daily painting practice with the hope of starting each day anew. Now she uses this beautiful hanko on her prints.

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