"Jeannie Motherwell, second generation Provincetown painter, is at the top of her game as she throws red, blue and black acrylics on a wet surface, creating layered textures that call to mind an explosion of pent-up anguish. To this she sparingly adds torn collaged fragments and boat-like hieroglyphs. The result appears as spontaneous and unpredictable as the sea . . ."—Susan Rand Brown, Jeannie Motherwell Unlocks the Ghost of the Patricia Marie, Provincetown Banner Correspondent

"Ms. Motherwell's pictures portray an obscure, sunlight-suffused world that cannot quite be seen. The text, appropriated from conversations with friends and colleagues, their poetry, and sometimes literary excerpts, makes the play both psychological and visual. The work is almost always hopeful, as if there were something beyond the windows, like a person inside hiding who is now ready to come out."—Peter Alson, Author

". . . she's used collage, digital photography, painting, and text to create complex, subtle works that evoke the Cape's Province Lands. The images straddle abstraction and reality."—Necee Regis, Sea Change, American Airlines 'American Way'

"In each of her works there's nearly as much that you can identify as you can't—the abstract and the figurative coexist matter-of-factly, like a shaman conversing with a ghost."—Christopher Millis, Editor, artsMEDIA Magazine

"Ms. Motherwell's collages speak to the heart, the spirit, and the mind—at several levels."—Dan Cooper, Writer

"Jeannie Motherwell's collages depict introspective daydreams of belonging and separation. Their paper-and-paint reality expresses the joy that their creation holds for her. Her shadowed-box world is inhabited by the things and feelings we all know or sense. That's the private connection she shares with us."—Richard Harrington, Artist

"Her face-sized paintings are a type of portrait, a sketch of an emotion from daily life. The skin of a person in her paintings is replaced by whorling gestures repeated in the brushwork, like shadows on a face...there is a snippet of sense that organizes the elements into a coherent whole."—Christopher Busa, Editor, Provincetown Arts

"Jeannie Motherwell, a longtime practitioner of collage, has with her new work gotten back to her roots: painting. The new series of small images, inspired by a catalogue of work by her stepmother that were titled after Provincetown locations, is her most painterly to date."—Brenner Thomas, Editor, The Seen and the Unseen, Jeannie Motherwell and Deborah Barlow Show New Work, Provincetown Magazine (Acrobat pdf file)

"In the work of Jeannie Motherwell, whose exhilarating, brilliantly inventive “Windows” and “Rosetta” series of collages opens tomorrow at the Lyman-Eyer Gallery, abstract design is suffused with realistic imagery in what can only be described as a visually poetic revelation of artistic intent."—Stuard Derrick, Portrait of an Artist: Jeannie Motherwell, Provincetown Magazine

"Jeannie Motherwell spends each day working alone in her studio on Pemberton Street in North Cambridge. Every day, the artist sits down and composes acrylic paint, photo snapshots, torn pictures and snippets of conversation into intensely personal shadowbox Giclee prints. Motherwell hopes her art also expresses something meaningful to others."—David Ortiz, Peek Behind the Painting, Cambridge Tab

"Jeannie Motherwell has resumed her career, creating intimate collages that speak to all of us."—Dan Cooper, Jeannie Motherwell: Painting Again, P'town Women Magazine

"Jeannie Motherwell and I both spent our childhood summers in Provincetown, and knew each other slightly, yet didn't become good friends until much more recently. I'm not sure exactly why that's so, but we were both shy as children, and beyond that shared a certain unmetabolized weight of artistic expectation that might have made a friendship uncomfortable."—Peter Alson, Beyond the Windows: A Conversation with Jeannie Motherwell, Provincetown Arts