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​​​​​​Artist's Statement

​I draw in order to know the world. To feel the contours of the land, to explore the unknown and that which is difficult to convey in words. Drawing is Quiet. Slow. Contemplative. Deliberate. I want things to slow down. Nature, life, time. My work rests in the pause, the deep breath, the lit candle, the golden hour. The birds, the crickets, the silence. This is an invitation to look deeply. 

Using the simple earthen materials of charcoal and paper, I emphasize light, movement, spatial awareness and a hands on physical connection to, and experience of what is tangible and real. Let my work encourage you to slow down, to sink into quiet stillness, to rest, to listen, to hear, to notice, to wonder.

My drawings in charcoal and pastel explore the landscape of rural Vermont. With curiosity I follow the warmth of late afternoon summer sunlight as it filters down through the dense foliage of trees, gently illuminating and inviting one to travel further, down the slowly curving lines of narrow dirt roads, weaving through lush forests and over green rolling hayfields. I follow the dappled light down soft woodland paths to the quiet stillness of overgrown wetlands whose deep waters and brightly lit surfaces are teeming with life, humming with insects, surrounded by tangled vegetation. I explore the mysteries hidden in the deep shadows created by light falling through the crooked and broken windows of abandoned houses, shacks, and barns leaning precariously, in various stages of decline, as nature reclaims these crumbling artifacts of mankind, succumbing to lichen, moss, briar, rust and thorn. I follow the light, the movement, and the mystery, the grace and deliberateness of nature. 

Artist Biography
Juniper was raised in Vermont and grew up on dirt roads, imagining, exploring, and drawing in the green fields, forests, streams and wetlands of this beautiful state. From a very young age she read voraciously and was always drawn to art, nature, and philosophy. Juniper uses charcoal as a medium because it is readily available, warm, beautiful, expressive, simple and earthy. 

Juniper studied Art and Semiotics in her non-traditional, self designed B.A. program at Vermont College/Union Institute and University, graduating in 2007. In 2018 she obtained her M.S. in Conservation Biology, focusing on Wetland Ecology, from Antioch University. For her thesis, she wrote and illustrated a book titled “An Illustrated Ecology of Edible and Medicinal Wetland Plants of Vermont.” Juniper also has Wilderness First Responder training (2015), 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training (2015), and she lives off-grid and outside the box with her rescued Pit Bull in the forests of Vermont. 

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