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A doodler by design. I drove my teachers crazy when I was young because I doodled constantly. For years my excuse was that it helped keep me engaged.  Now I use my doodles to create. 

I love creating line art and I love how easy it is to reproduce. Something as simple as a stencil can reproduce line art.  My most recent work using a laser cutter offers a new outlet using state-of-the-art technology. Line art can be beautiful, funny or strange, but almost always has strong visual impact. Exactly what I'm looking for.

The laser cutter is uniquely suited to work with line artwork. It can take my two dimensional image, and help me turn it into functional art. Paper and wood were some of the earliest materials used to mass produce images and words, but with new technology, paper and wood can once again be fresh and optimistic.

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Textiles have called out to Mary Jane since childhood. Realizing that non-traditional fibers could be sewn together in the quilting process, often with raw edges exposed, and using the speed and spontaneity of free motion quilting techniques, her doll making ideas took shape.  As Mary Jane created dolls, she was drawn into the challenge of sculpting the human form, especially the face, and expressing the whimsical side of human nature.  Clay, sticks, bones, and found objects of all kinds find their way into these characters.

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Jolynn’s first career for 30 years as an exotic veterinarian, gives her the knowledge of anatomy of the birds and animals she now creates in bronze.

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Being a Colorado native, Jolynn’s art is influenced by the native birds and wildlife as well as the parrots that she has owned and raised for over 40 years. Jolynn and her husband reside in Southern Colorado where she enjoys her horses, birds and walking their dog along the canyon rim while doing a bit of birding along the way.

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Her work has been accepted into shows in Colorado and Arizona, including the Loveland Sculpture Show.  Jolynn is an Associate with Distinction Member with the American Women’s Artists.

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We live in a throw-away society. The cost to repair items is often greater than the cost to replace. Therefore, items get discarded when they no longer function properly. Even those that do, eventually become 'obsolete'. They too are discarded and replaced with 'the newest thing'.

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I rescue some of these items, re-purpose them, and give them a new life. The completed works of art become greater than the sum of their parts. Sometimes these art pieces take on the identities of science fiction icons, past and present pop culture or are just whimsical in nature. Often, materials used are from the very same time period as the intended finished piece. Still other pieces become art that is unique and one of a kind. A creation from my imagination.

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I graduated with a BSE degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater. While working on my degree I also took some art and architectural design classes. Other than scale model building projects (using recycled materials) in my math classes, I did no art for more than 20 years while teaching. In 2001 I took some basic drawing classes to be able to illustrate some of the children's books I had been writing. When I retired from teaching in 2007, I had more time to work on art and began making sci-fi furniture. This led to sculptures that had a sci-fi/fantasy, space age, steampunk or atomic age theme. Many pieces are experiments in design, aesthetics, engineering and problem solving. Within five years I was one of three finalists for The Pikes Peak Visual Artist of the Year award. My pieces have found their way into almost three dozen galleries, including numerous solo exhibits.

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my Messenger Horses, which have gemstones as the mane and tail and openings that reveal symbolic elements inside. They come with miniature books stating the materials, theme, and meaning of the horse and its gemstones. Many recent horses have anthropomorphic figures riding them.  Some explore the Sacred Feminine, which led to my series, Equine Goddesses, which was featured in two shows. 

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Much of my inspiration comes from trips I have taken to ancient sacred Earth sites and my interest in ancient mythologies, Nature, and the inner or mystical life. 

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I often fire my pieces in the raku method, which makes them even more one-of-a-kind and related to Nature. I enjoy doing clay portraits of people who inspire me. My bust of Deb Haaland received an award in the 2022 Fall Arts Festival in Taos. It was later on display in the foyer of the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos. 

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I was featured in an article in Western Horseman Magazine – the September 2024 edition. 

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Another recent series is anthropomorphic figures with Hoo Doos and other iconic New Mexican landscape features. 

The newest work is my clay and mixed media Portal series, started in late 2025. I make clay “portals” inspired by stones with natural holes through them, considered extremely auspicious in places like Ireland. They are known as holy stones, hag stones, adder stones, or Druid stones. It is said that when we peer through the holes, we are able to see the unseen world or the fairy realm. I put original translucent glass photographs in them that change with the light and give off an otherworldly glow. Human, animal, or anthropomorphic sculpted figures add to their story. 

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The horses are also portals in a way. Horses are a universal archetype. Their openings suggest the Sacred Cave – the Womb of the Earth. Our relationship with animals helps us connect with forgotten aspects of ourselves. 

My home and studio are located in a rural village in Northern New Mexico, where Nature always inspires.