In early childhood, my father and stepmother encouraged me to make drawings to go with my poems. Like many, my parents pinned my work to the refrigerator, but they also framed many of these mementos. It was a marvelous form of validation for me and influenced my love for painting today.

I hope my work expresses feelings and things that we know or sense, like introspective daydreams of belonging. I am always working toward the hopeful.

Jeannie Motherwell
Cambridge, MA


Daydream: A dreamlike musing or fantasy while awake, especially of the fulfillment of wishes or hopes.
–American Heritage Dictionary