These poo like objects are semi solidified keim soldalit which I make into chunky pastels for use on some of my paintings. I love this paint! Necessity certainly is “the mother of invention”!
I’m grateful for being able to use what was excess to someone else’s requirements in a creative way. I’ve mixed up variations of the colours I had, and in some cases added inorganic pigments which are compatible with the sol silicate paint.
It has a beautiful texture and feel.. Silky smooth and clay like. It also smells lovely and as an ecofriendly paint both myself and mother earth are extra happy!
Maybe an unusual way to return after a bit of a Summer break to the Autumn’s art journal posts, but never mind!
Buying art prints from jennyjimjams.redbubble.com
Selling unsigned art prints helps generate the funds I need to pay for materials and also means that people can buy some of my art and design in an affordable way, which is very important to me.
Basically Redbubble are a “print on demand” site which I upload selected artworks up, onto meaning products and prints can be manufactured by Redbubble and orders fulfilled by them. There are thousands of artists on there, so it can be tricky to locate my specific art prints unless you have a link or the full artwork title.
So if you want to order anything with my art and design on, and are having difficulty locating it on redbubble, please do contact me directly via my blog with a screenshot of what you have seen and want and I will locate it for you and send you the link.
Contact Jenny Meehan AKA jennyjimjams here: https://jennymeehan.wordpress.com/jenny-meehan-jennifer-meehan-how-to-contact-me/
Another note about Redbubble.
Postage costs at Redbubble basically get higher if you order many different types of products because they are shipped from different manufacturing points, some of which are in different countries. This is what it says on the Redbubble website:
“Everything on the Redbubble marketplace is printed just for you, so a lot of thought goes into the way each item is made and shipped. A global network of 3rd-party manufacturers and shipping services work tirelessly to get your order from the site to your door.
Your order details are sent to one of the 3rd-party printers closest to you.
The 3rd-party printers that fulfill your orders are based all around the world. The type of product you order and your shipping address affect where the product is made. Because of this, your order can sometimes come in different packages and arrive on different days.
How are shipping costs calculated?
Because orders from independent artists on the Redbubble marketplace are made by 3rd-party printers around the world, shipping costs vary and depend on a few key factors:
Whether you ship Standard or Express
Where the order is shipping to and from
The packaging used to ship each part of the order
Orders containing multiple items may be printed at different facilities, adding to the shipping cost
Here’s how you can see an estimated shipping price before placing your order:
Add the desired product(s) to your cart.
In your cart, the shipping cost will be estimated based on your shipping location and shipping method.”
I order products myself from Redbubble, and I find I often adjust my order to reduce shipping costs which I do by selecting several of one type of product rather than ordering many different kinds which need to be shipped from a higher number of places. That might not be you desire but can be worth bearing in mind if it matters to you.
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Please do take a look at my redbubble artist profile and consider if you might like to make some purchases from there… Great gifts, and you know Christmas will come quickly!
Alternatively remember that I do sell my original artwork as well as licensing my art images and again both these income streams sustain my artworking.
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Past Art Submissions
I’m posting up a past artwork submission I made a few years back. I’ve found that it’s very important to value process, and while it’s a bit of a disappointment when work doesn’t get selected, it’s also true that I find the process of making an application very interesting and it often works as a stimulus to some interesting research, thinking, and ideas which I often use at points in the future. Therefore to include unsuccessful ventures in my artist narrative is very relevant. Nothing is wasted! I often find the thinking and research ends up benefitting me in other areas of my life and I use what I’ve learnt for other things in unexpected ways!
So here we go…
Here’s a portion of a proposal to “Energy & Life in the context of Biological Science”
Practice
I work mainly with paint, digital imagery, and writing. I work in a process led manner seeking always to be open to new ideas. My visual work is most broadly described stylistically as being lyrically abstract/geometrically abstract.
In my artistic practice I have been working a lot with small glass spheres of varying microns in size. I use these on my paintings to create interesting textures and variations in the way that light hits the surface.
I’ve recently started experimenting with fractal generating software, and this is interesting to me as my use of it encompasses both a sense of predictability and control, alongside the unexpected occurrences which come from my own creative, somewhat more intuitive, processes. My use of the software is a development of an existing strand of work involving geometric abstraction, through which I have been seeking to express graphically both concepts and emotion using vector graphics in Photoshop. I’m interested in experimenting with combining the communicative power of abstract elements with the some of the form representations you work with.
As is the case with all of my work, I aim to produce aesthetically pleasing creations which demonstrate beauty within their form. Because this is the wonder I find in life, and the energy which motivates me as an artist. That in the brokenness (or apparent lack of order) beauty (and a sense of cohesion and resolution) can be discovered.
Interest
Molecules seem to always be depicted as circles or spheres. There’s something pleasing to me about this. I’m interested in continuing the use of circles/spheres I have initially started in my work and am wondering if it might be possible to base some creative art working on some of the ways molecules can be represented in your own area of expertise. (!) I am currently thinking of ball-and-stick models, (but there must be many other types of graphics you use for different purposes) and using fractal generating software to experiment with creating beautiful animations and/or still images/prints. How I then applied, and focused, this process, would really depend on what I learnt when spending time with you.
For myself, working with you offers a potential for me to step into the unknown…and I will create something which has a sense of mystery and wonder, basically because I am certain that as I open my mind to your endeavours, this is going to inspire me and send me in some interesting creative directions. In order to stay open to possibilities, imagination is key. This is what both scientists and artists do: we perceive what is, but imagine what might be, and then use our knowledge, technical skills and sensibilities to pursue what we have imagined. I’m really interested to get the chance to work collaboratively with scientists, to see how art and science can interact! “
There’s more to it but what I’ve quoted is enough for here, reminding me of some of my thinking and thoughts for a potential series of artworks. Sadly not to be realised in collaboration with other people and an organisation in the way I would have liked it, but as said, these things are never lost.
The reality of art submissions is they really are very speculative and involve a lot of work even in the creation of the submission. I’ve found over the years it’s best to only choose things you really can feel passionate about and then make the submission for its own sake, knowing that you may get lucky but in the end there are loads of wonderful talent artists and designers out there, which is GREAT, but the flip side is it probably depends on which way the wind is blowing that day whether you get selected or not. Not getting selected primarily isn’t personal, or a reflection of the quality of you work or proposal, (though sometimes it might be.. But never that alone)
I’m not sure who eventually did fit the bill for that artist call out, as I can’t find anything on the internet but I’d love to see the successful artists approach and outcomes so if you know please let me know. The artist call out was via Curator Space and was “Energy & Life in the context of Biological Science“
“Successful” Art Submission
Well, this one has been exhibited in several places now, in many different settings. As it’s a self portrait and was one of my earliest explicitly autobiographical art works it’s got a special place in my heart.
“Woman and Home
Woman and Home…Memories from women’s magazines on what my life can be. But it cannot. The words are a prison. Having experienced violence in the past brings an awareness of the disconnect between the outside image of what I may be and the reality of what is/was. I like to utilise the imagery which has struck me as having come from somewhere deep within my own experience, unexpected. The original photographic image (a self portrait) I used in creating this work was taken in 2008, at a time when the adverse effects of my various past traumas were tightly packed inside me, affecting my life by causing pressure; still very much under the surface. I chose to use this because in re-creating -it into a new artwork, I was both testifying to the impact of my own traumatic experiences of violence and it’s effects, while also recognising that the passage of time has brought change and progress: Re creation. Using the imagery for a positive purpose matters a lot to me.”

Woman and Home Woman’s issues contemporary digital artwork Jenny Meehan Artist working with psychological and emotional trauma experience. Trauma Recovery image of woman facing magazine headline text telling her aspirational statements yet they also imprison her ©Jenny Meehan
The text is all taken from the front pages of “Woman and Home” magazines. It effectively forms a kind of transparent netting falling across the image, so though in theory some positive wording, I am using it as something to evolk an awareness of the distance between the reality for me and many women.
Jenny Meehan Poetry
I’m still very much enjoying focusing on poetry and it tends to be these Autumn months which send me into writing mode in contrast to the Summer which have a big painting focus.
This is one of my poems on the theme of being the daughter of a schizophrenic mother. I’m sharing it again now as I’m spending some reflective time once again on my past experiences of being in the care of a mother in the midst of psychosis.
Flower Dream
Deep within the pot of me…
Not cracked, like Mummy.
Not hung on the wall,
slipping downwards…
A glassy look
that never met my tears.
I am sad and angry…
I won’t deny it.
For too long it was inconvenient
for me to exist in reality.
As I was saying;
Deep within the pot of me
I hoped for sunlight.
I dreamt of a day
when someone mysterious
would knock at the door, and come,
laden with flowers…
flowers upon flowers…
Come laden with flowers,
and colours, and petals,
and leaves, and stalks…
To give.
To give something
to me.
Not bleeding, or painful; like daffodils when you cut them.
(My sister was horrified).
As I was saying…
I hoped for sunlight
deep within the pot
of me.
But I could not reach out for it,
though I heard it was there…
in the garden.
In the garden of flowers,
which naked, Mummy ran through,
when all was solved
and the world was
entirely
her own.
The birds told me…
Deep in the garden…
In the shed…
I do exist.
This is why
I cry for the flowers.
They took my sister away, because she was too angry.
But keep me here, because I am no trouble.
And who needs flowers, anyway?
As long as your pot is not broken.
As I was saying…
Not cracked, like Mummy.
But empty,
non the less.
And the flowers are so beautiful;
A beautiful dream
for me.
Jenny Meehan 2017
This poem accompanies the Digital C type print “Flower Dream”.
Here it is:
As you can see it was first exhibited at the Sharp Gallery in Brixton which was very fitting for it I feel. They do fantastic work there and it was a privilege to contribute something.
Here’s the poem as a video poem:
I’m reading an amazing book right now.. “Growing Up with a Schizophrenic Mother.” by Margaret J Brown and Doris Parker Roberts.
Its full of other people’s experiences… So helpful and interesting!
I discovered my mother was schizophrenic when, in my early twenties, the community psychiatric nurse placed her medical card on the side table. I looked at it and it had in quite big black letters in felt tipped pen “psychotic / schizophrenic”. It was one moment of realisation. A glimmer of light and a total mystery. There was a word. Two words even!
As quick as the glimmer came, it went. No one had ever talked to me about what my mother’s chronic mental disorder was. It took some psychotherapy years later to make the connection. It was a relief. It was a relief to see something so certain and defined in the writing. The letters meant something that was indescribable. But they existed. That felt helpful, somehow.
She had simply “suffered with her nerves” and “had nervous breakdowns” She had a lot of pills. Sometimes she was well. Sometimes not.
Things didn’t get talked about then, I don’t think. Certainly, I recognise that labels have their pros and cons, their limitations… I’m not keen on them, however this memory was strangely very helpful to me!
It meant, I think that someone, somewhere had looked very carefully at my mother and knew what to make of her. They had, (in my imagination) , said “Ah! That’s what this is!” and it was routine, manageable. All was in order.
But the experience of growing up with a schizophrenic mother was unpredictable and complex.
This book is a super read for someone like myself, and somehow recognising the common ground I share with others is very beneficial.
Jenny Meehan “It is What it is/That’s Enough ” Video on You Tube
I’m building up quite a collection and enjoying experimenting with new media.
Just posted a new video, inspired by my current experience of Hypnotherapy! I’ve learnt a bit more on the value of trance, and made the video as a tool to use myself as a focal point for aiding relaxation when my anxiety levels become uncomfortable… With a nice full lung breath or two it seems to work pretty well for me!
It is What it is art video on YouTube by artist designer Jenny Meehan jennyjimjams
Re the title: It is What it Is/That’s Enough
I’m thinking of this phrase “It is What it is” as being used to indicate acceptance so that I can move on to better things rather than as an excuse to give up, ie in a fatalistic sense.
With “That’s Enough” I’m thinking of what has gone before.. I’m moving into the new, and new ways of thinking.. Like this from from the book of Isaiah
Isaiah 43:19
“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.”
As well as my video posted here I have many more on YouTube so check those out too!
Deaf Awareness Lipreading Reusable Facecoverings
200 + options #deaf #Deaf #lipreading #lipreaders #hardofhearing #hearingloss etc facemasks!
It’s my coronavirus pandemic creative art project. And it’s a bit addictive as I’m still adding more slogan options to this deaf awareness collection!
I have also designed less deaf specific options as other communities also benefit from mask removal at an appropriate distance in order to help facilitate good communications and reduce disability in certain contexts.
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I’ve received some lovely feedback which is very encouraging and helpful to me. I feel passionately on the whole area of “invisible” disabilities and I wanted to put my hand to a coronavirus pandemic art project which had so some distinct social engagement and practical application.
Here’s what I refer to as the flagship design in the huge collection of reusable communication prompt facecoverings/masks I’ve designed and some background info. The image shows a woman wearing a black and white flat reusabke fabric facecovering available to buy at Redbubble with the words “mask wearing is more of a barrier than intended” and there are several variations on the design, for example with deaf, Deaf, Hard of Hearing options.
Within this pandemic, mass masking, though positive, can also significantly contribute to experienced disability. This facemask design references the social model of disability which says that people are disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or difference. Barriers can be physical or caused by attitudes.
In 2020, after consulting with many Deaf/deaf and hard of hearing people, I chose to put my creative energy into designing over 200 communication prompt facecoverings which I sell through my redbubble artist profile (online POD marketplace) jennyjimjams.redbubble.com
These are a useful contribution to society, both as educational tools and awareness raisers. While different to my usual creative output, unusual times demand flexibility and innovation, both qualities I’ve embraced and enjoy.
Inclusivity has its roots in awareness of others.
Living in a richly diverse society involves us all looking beyond ourselves, and our own experience, and ensuring we invest time and energy into educating ourselves on the realities of other people’s lives.
Part of this process is examining the way specific situations and general circumstances in everyday life can impact different groups of people.
In the UK there are 12 million adults with hearing loss greater than 25 dBHL. (RNID statistics) This is equivalent to one in five adults. So that’s quite a few, even without including children. So wherever we live in the UK, we will encounter a substantial amount of people who can relate in an intimate way to the effect of facecoverings on experienced disability. And many more who will benefit from the prompt to take them into consideration!
As well as my deaf awareness range, printed on masks, badges, stickers and more, and consisting of over 200 different designs, I have many other fashionable and decorative, face coverings on my artist profile at Redbubble, plus beautiful interior decoration designs for home and office.
The Jenny Meehan /jennyjimjams Deaf deaf and hard of hearing design collection are all available to buy via my jennyjimjams.redbubble.com artist profile. (the second one down!)
https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennymeehan
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Jenny Meehan/jennyjimjams are both Redbubble artist portfolios of British contemporary Artist Designer Jenny Meehan.
Well that’s it for September… I do have lots of paintings on the go still but probably won’t post up till next year now. Ps my original plan of one a month fell to the ground… In fact it will work put that I’ve done more than one painting a month… Probably more like one a week, however publicising them in such an orderly manner clearly doesn’t agree with me!
Jenny Meehan Licensable Digital Art Images
Design and Artists Copyright Society DACS 2022
Do you need a licence to use one of my images?
Yes!
I’m a member of the Design and Artists Copyright Society, (DACS) and my digital images are licensable via DACS.
Please contact me in the first instance with your enquiry. I’m flexible about fees, which are based on the industry standard, but negotiable. NOTE :All fees cited by the Design and Artists Copyright Society are proposed; not set in stone; and depending on circumstances, budgets, the nature of your project etc I can be flexible.
To get an idea of the industry standard fees for an image licence take a look at the Design and Artists Copyright Society Information page:
https://www.dacs.org.uk/licensing-works
You are of course able to simply fill out an image licence request via the Design and Artists Copyright Society form here too if preferred:
https://www.dacs.org.uk/licensing-works
The Design and Artists Copyright Society is an informative website and a good introduction to the process of licensing an art image for anyone seeking an image to use who is not familiar with the process, what information is needed, etc.
I am also happy to help you personally though as well, and have an extremely large archive of digital art images so do feel free to contact me directly and give me an idea of your project, intended use, and requirements.
Remember..
DACS will automatically propose a licensing fee in line with the industry standard. However, please note, this is a negotiable fee. I am happy to be flexible about the initial fee proposed, and it’s not a problem if the initially proposed fee is outside your budget.
It works like this…
Administration of the licensing process is facilitated through the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS), who liaise between us with respect to the exact fee agreed. Depending on circumstances and the nature of your project, I can usually offer fee reductions for a certain percentage of licensing arrangements.
If you decide you want to use their online form, then you need to attach the low resolution image of my artwork which you have found on the internet, they will know which image you seek permission for.
As I’ve said, you can also contact me informally, in the first instance if you wish to, of course. Any formal arrangements will need to be made through the Designer and Artists’ Copyright Society, but I can often offer the opportunity to alter images, for example, putting in different aspect ratios or colourways, so it’s really helpful to communicate with designers and clients first with respect to the actual image required.
So, feel free to contact me. I will also be able to let you know the maximum size the digital image is available at. If you then wish to licence the artwork image, you would then contact the Design and Artist Copyright Society to arrange the licencing agreement according to your requirements. Once paid and agreed, I then supply the high resolution image directly to you.
Byee!
Last words are a general blurb.. However please do share my art journal if you find its a pleasure to yourself, and know that your time in reading it is appreciated! And also your times skimming over what does not speak to you is equally valuable… We all hope and maybe pray for discernment in life to find what is nourishing and beneficial to us.
Why read “Jenny Meehan – Contemporary Artist’s Journal: The Artist’s Meandering Discourses – poetry – painting – spirituality (mostly!)?
This artist’s blog is of interest to artists, art collectors, art lovers and anyone interested in fine art and creativity in general. Those interested in British 21st century female contemporary artists, women and art, religious art, spirituality and art, and psychoanalysis and art, will probably enjoy dipping into this Jenny Meehan Contemporary Artist’s Journal.
Art collectors are often interested in the processes, techniques, interests and influences of the artists whose work they collect, and sharing my thoughts and perspectives through a blog is an important dimension of my creative practice.
I describe my painting as being romantic, expressionistic, abstract and lyrical. Art collectors interested in lyrical abstraction, abstract expressionist, and essentially romantic art, are likely to find my paintings an interesting and exciting addition to their art collection.
I am a versatile, innovative, self-representing artist, whose aim is to ensure I continue to develop my painting practice in an innovative and pioneering way. The gamut of my creative artworking is wide, ranging from poetry, accessible open edition digital prints, new media, and sculpture. It’s my belief that this openness helps to keep the trajectory of my output dynamic and progressive.
I hope to add to the number of people who value, collect, and develop an interest in my paintings and to thereby sustain and develop my practice over many years.
I’ve been exhibiting my art for over ten years now, mostly in the UK. My artwork has been shown in over 90 exhibitions of many kinds. My artwork appeals to the aesthetic and emotional discernment of many, and has been displayed in many art galleries including the Dulwich Picture Gallery, Pallant House Gallery, the Stanley Picker Gallery, and Kingston Museum.
My artwork has been included in several academic projects and and publications including “Speaking Out – Women Recovering from the Trauma of Violence” by Nicole Fayard in 2014 and the ongoing “Recovery” Exhibition project – Institute Of Mental Health/City Arts, Nottingham University, also in 2014
While my romantic, lyrical, expressionistic, abstract paintings offer a contemplative space free from cares and concerns, other strands of my practice engage with subjects ranging from violence, trauma recovery, psychoanalysis, and mental health.
As an abstract artist with an expressionist and romantic orientation, most of my creative engagement is a deeply personal, contemplative, practice more than anything else.
However, I do also enjoy engagement with other subject matter, as there are many aspects of society, cultural life, history, and issues which interest me, and so I adapt my approach accordingly. This results in a versatile, diverse output, which I find helpful.
I treasure the eclectic nature of my artistic practice as it appears to serve the useful purpose of creating numerous creative possibilities which I find exciting and stimulating. This keeps me motivated and helps my work progress. Its all about experimentation and exploration in the end.
General Information on Jenny Meehan AKA jennyjimjams
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Jenny Meehan
I’m a Painter-Poet, visual artist, contemplative, writer, and mentor (Progressive Christian faith centred) based in East Surrey/South West London, UK.
Support my art working by buying products printed with my designs/art images on Redbubble! Not forgetting, of course, high quality original fine paintings, available direct from me!
Geometric and lyrical abstraction from London/Surrey based female British Contemporary Artist.
I’m interested in spirituality (particularly Christ centred spirituality), creativity, emotional and psychological well-being, trauma recovery, and mindfulness.
I exhibit mainly in the UK, and am a member of Kingston Artists’ Open Studios (KAOS).
I have trained both with SPIDIR and through a variety of other training bodies as a spiritual mentor/prayer guide.
I am a trained teacher (PGCE) and hold small groups for developing painting and drawing skills, as well as offering individual tuition., either online or in person.
If you are less interested in original fine art and paintings, but would like to have something with my digital imagery on it, then go to:
https://www.redbubble.com/people/JennyMeehan
and
https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennyjimjams
Where you can buy selected art and design.
Redbubble are a print on demand business. When you buy products with my art and design on the artist’s margin I receive helps fund my creative arts practice. Every little helps.
Many of my original paintings are available for purchase when no longer required for exhibition. Price range normally is between £200 and £900, though commissioned artworks in a format larger than A0 have a higher price bracket.
I regularly license images of my work via the Designers and Artists Copyright Society (DACS). Industry rates are proposed for image licences via DACS, but contact me directly via this jennymeehan.wordpress.com blog with your requirements and budget. Fees for image licences are negotiable. As a living artist member of DACS, I have the final say in the image licence fees I accept and depending on circumstances I can offer flexibility for art image licence fees to suit your budget. Contact jenny meehan in the first instance via this jennymeehan.wordpress.com art journal.
All content is © Jenny Meehan.
Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts of writing and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Jenny Meehan with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Images may not be used without permission.
Please note that all images of my artwork are subject to copyright law: All rights reserved. In the first instance, contact me, and I will refer, as/if appropriate.
If you are looking for artwork, particularly abstract, colourist, expressionistic lyrical abstraction type painting images suitable for book covers etc, then do contact me as I might have something to suit which will be quick and easy to license via DACS
June Art Journal – Artist Creative Jenny Meehan Art Blog – Online Art Gallery and Art Exhibitions Information
June 6, 2021

Jenny Meehan AKA jennyjimjams self portrait 2021 ©Jenny meehan
It’s always such a pleasure to meet people and take part in #OpenStudios. Oh well, maybe next year!
Abstract Painting: One a Month for 2021
I got a little behind my schedule and so didn’t post April’s Abstract Painting up in my last blog post. So here it is a little late. It’s title is “Crossroad”. The theme is broadly that of order and chaos… When I refer to “theme” I’m thinking of loose associations suggested mentally and emotionally rather than subject matter.
Crossroad abstract lyrical painting by Jenny Meehan AKA jennyjimjams ©Jenny Meehan

Mysterium Fascinans ©Jenny Meehan Abstract Digital Collage A Visual Meditation on the wonder of the Oneness of Creator God
Exhibition Page for Jenny Meehan Contemporary Artist’s Journal!

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Jenny Meehan Art Exhibitions
I might have missed out a few, but will check through more thoroughly when I prepare a separate page! For some odd reason the text has lost all spaces… I haven’t been able to rectify so have put strings of dots between different exhibitions. Very confused about that! Exhibitions 2020 An interesting year with many exhibitions being cancelled due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Here’s a few things which still, kind of, happened! Humanising Medicine Exhibition, part of the Being Human Festival 2020. Festival Theme: “New Worlds”. An art exhibition to share people’s experiences of Covid_19. A public outdoor magnet exhibition at Queen Mary University of London, and available online as part of the Being Human Festival between 12th and 20th November. Also 19th November/18th December in Barts Pathology Museum, London EC1A 7BE Jenny Meehan exhibited “More of a Barrier than Intended” Digital Collage ……. All in the Mind Festival 2020 Scheduled for12 Sep, 11:00 – 18:00 Eastrop Park, Eastrop Ln, Basingstoke RG21 4QB. Took place online due to Coronavirus Pandemic. “All in the Mind” is an annual performing arts festival inspired by mental health, organised by the Fluid Motion Theatre Company. Jenny Meehan’s Short Film “Time Table” (Edition 2) screened during festival. …… Riddle 57: an interactive animation Venue: online organised by Double Elephant Print Workshop Double Elephant Print Workshop launched a lockdown project to bring together poets, historians, animators and printmakers to turn a 1000 year old riddle into an animated interactive encounter. Riddle 57 is one of 94 from the Exeter Book, a tenth-century anthology of poetry in Exeter Cathedral’s library, recognised by UNESCO as one of the world’s principal cultural artefacts. DEPW collaborated with Medievalists Prof Chris Jones and Dr Megan Cavell as well as contemporary poet Jacob Polley to explore translations of the text. Jenny Meehan’s artwork included: “Full of Song When Keyed Together”. Published online 20th August 2020. View project here: https://www.doubleelephant.org.uk/riddle-57 …… Chaiya Art Awards. Not exhibited, but Jenny Meehan’s artwork “Light Touch” got through the first round of the selection process. From over 700 entries, made it into the longlist of 113. Chaiya Art Awards, initially scheduled for 10 – 19 April 2020 gallery oxo, London, SE1 9PH. …… “Dwell Time” Online Exhibition ongoing “Dwell Time” printed publication Launch on 15th July. Dwell Time Issue 2 is available to order by post and a pdf download available from the Dwell Time website. The print publication and pdf are free with only postage costs applicable. https://dwelltimepress.wordpress.com/issue2/ My submission “Sticky Note to Myself” was included in the printed publication and also selected for one of an edition of Ten contributions on display at Huddersfield Railway Station from December 3rd 2020 …… The Art of Caring was planned be exhibited twice. First, at St Georges Hospital (May 2020) to help celebrate InternationalNursesDay. Secondly, at St Pancras Hospital (July-Oct 2020) Due to the pandemic, it’s an online exhibition over the month of May only. Jenny Meehan’s artwork “Take Care of Ourselves/Eating Your Greens” featured on 06/05/2020 …… MADE exhibition May 2020 (scheduled 29th April – 7th May) Online for time being (probably rescheduled to be at Menier Gallery 2021) MADE 2020 Online Exhibition Launch May 11th 2020 (@MadeAtMorley) …… “75 Memorials. A Community Remembers” at Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington TW11 9NN 15 Jan- 2nd February 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Part of the Borough’s Holocaust Memorial Day programme and in commemoration of this major anniversary. London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames and the Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington. …… Exhibitions 2019 Open Projections: Digital Art Exhibition NYE@ Coventry Cathedral 7:30 pm – 1 Jan 1:00 am Open projections 4 is at Location Coventry Cathedral Priory St, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK Jenny Meehan’s Short Film “Wonder” was shown as part of this exhibition. …… “Time Table” (1st Edition) Short Film Screening shown on 3rd December 2019 at STRETCH – Reel Time event. Held at Mirabel Studios 14 -20 Mirabel Street Manchester M31PJ …… Humanizing Medicine Exhibition at Barts Pathology Museum 14th – 23rd November at 24 West Smithfield London EC1A 7BE Part of the “Being Human national festival of the humanities, led by the School of Advanced Study University of London in partnership with the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the British Academy …… “Subterraneous Exhibition” The North Pennines AONB Partnership. Gallery@Bowlees Visitor Centre, Upper Teesdale, Sept 1st – 30th …… Shape Open at Bow Arts’ Nunnery Gallery from Friday 6th September until Thursday 19th September, 10am to 5pm …… Digital Innovations in Mental Health 2019 Conference Exhibition, Deans Yard, Westminster School, London 13th 14th August …… Tales of the Monsters in my Head’ Exhibition at Tristan Bates Theatre, London 14th -16th August …… Pavilion Late: The Art of Identity 19th July Dulwich Picture Gallery Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD ……. eMotion interactive art exhibit at the Tate Modern 11 16 June 2019, 12-5pm daily as part of the Ideas in Motion exhibition. One of several contributors to this project during Mental Health Awareness Week 2019 …….. Kingston Artists Open Studios 2019 8th-16th June ……. “Dreams and Dreaming’ February and March 2019 at the Sharp Gallery Brixton, SW9 ……. “Mosaic” Exhibition at City Lit, Holborn, London WC2B 9th – 23rd Feb ……. Exhibitions 2018 “Ecstasy In Norwich” (Art exhibition centred on Julian of Norwich c. 8 November 1342-c 1416,English anchoress Christian mystic and theologian. Her Revelations of Divine Love, written around 1395, is the first book in the English language known to have been written by a woman.) at Lower Green Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk, B- 22nd December 2018 ……. Kingston Art 2018: My Muybridge Art Exhibition, Kingston Museum, Wheatfield Way, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2PS My painted collage “Mind’s Eye” is part of this exhibition The exhibition showcased 24 Kingston-based artists responses to Kingston Museum’s photographic Muybridge Collection ……. Small World Futures” 2018, On the streets around London Bridge, at the Unsettled Gallery for an unknown time, depending on what happens to it! Jenny Meehan’s “Vibe Drome’, among other small worlds. Writing by Natalie Low accompanies the Piece. “Small World Futures is a collection of 38 miniature sculptures depicting what life could look like in years to come. Each of these small artworks will be placed in public spaces (unsettled gallery) around London Bridge Every day throughout February we will be featuring one of these worlds here on the website A writer will also use the world as an inspiration to create something new and fresh, their words describing the shape of a new world” As part of this Collect Connect project my place “Vibe Drome will make its journey to the streets of London For more information: http://collectconnect.blogspot.co.uk/ ……. Exhibitions 2017 Roach Rd, London E3 2PA “Woman and Home” Nasty Women Exhibition 22nd – 24th September 2017 7 framed signed artist’s print donated. (The Nasty Women Global Art Movement was started in New York to increase tolerance and garner support for individual rights using the universal platform of art as a forum for self-expression. Nasty Women UK is an intersectional movement bringing together people of all genders, races, faiths and LGBTQIA Identities. We want to give everyone who has ever felt silenced a voice, and are appealing to anyone who is committed to advancing equal rights to submit works for inclusion in this inspiring weekend of events.) http://www.nastywomenuk.com ……. Kingston Artists Open Studios KAOS OPEN STUDIOS 10th/111h and 17th/18th June 2017115 pm at Studio KAOS 2, 14 Liverpool Road Kingston KT2 7SZ http://www.kingstonartistsopenstudios.co.uk/ ……. Chester Art Centre Open Exhibition 2017 juried “Leap of Faith” selected for hanging at Joseph Benjamin Restaurant 140 Northgate Street, Chester, CH1 2HT June/July 2017 ……. It’s Raining.Cats and Dogs” Exhibition at The Art Space, first floor Cass Art, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 1NW 10th – 18th June 2017 ……. The Art of Caring Exhibition. On the theme of care, caring and sustainability to celebrate international nurses day 2017. 3rd – 12th May 2017 Ground Floor, Atkinson Morley Wing. St Georges Hospital, London, SW17 0QT The exhibition will next go onto St Pancras Hospital from July to October 2017 My work “NHS Financial Pressures’ selected for The Arts Project Art of Caring Exhibition 2017 at The Conference Centre Gallery, St Pancras Hospital, London NW1 OPE 20th July – 19th October 2017. Open weekdays 9 – 5pm ……. Transgender, Gender & Psychoanalysis Exhibition (a fringe event for The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and The Freud Museum conference 11 – 12 March 2017). Draper House, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6SY Exhibition runs 6th – 12th March 11am- 6pm Work selected. ……. Art at Cafe JAX, London Road Kingston Upon Thames, KT2 6QF from 2nd January 2017 ongoing. KAOS Group Exhibition Exhibitions 2016 … Collect Connect Retrospective – 30th November until 8th December 2016, daily from 9am to 5pm (Closed Sat & Sun) Kensington and Chelsea College Gallery (Hortensia Rd, London, SW10 0QS Exhibition displaying a mixture of artwork, photographs and ephemera from these exhibitions – Open Fridge Fab Fridge 2010, Freeze Chester, Unblank, Lightbite, Brighton Open, SMartwalks, Rarities 2011. Patternotion, Art Jazzed Up, Jawspring, Cambridge Blue Plaque Walk, Hidebird 2012, MagnetBird, Freed Book, Future Bound, Cardboard City, Fab Fridge 2014, Dwell – Book of Nets. On the map, Art of Caring 2015, Art of Caring 2016, Relationship Map, Chapbooks, Postcards to My Future Self …… “Bah Humbug” KAos (Kingston Artists Open Studios) Christmas Exhibition 26th Nov – 11th Dec 2016 The Art Space at Cass Arts, Kingston Upon Thames.KT1 1NW Group show ……. Visual Arts Charity Exhibition ( Express CIC) – Opening Night Tuesday, December 6th, 2016 (19:00 -21:00) Donations from sale of artwork go to Express CIC. At Cornerhouse Arts Centre, Surbiton Surrey KT6. 7SB 27th Nov – 31st Dec 2016 Charity Exhibition and Auction held by Basis, Yorkshire. 9th December 2016 at Hyde Park Book Club, 27-29 Headingley Ln, Leeds LS6 1BL and then at The Brunswick, 82 North Street, Mabgate, Leeds, LS2 7PN for two weeks. ……. Imagined Worlds Exhibition – A touring exhibition of artworks inspired by the poem ‘Kubla Khan’ written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1816. This is a celebration by the Friends of Coleridge supported by Somerset Art Works, working in partnership with the National Trust, CICCIC Taunton, and Art at the Heart, RUH Bath CICCIC Memorial Hall, Paul St, Taunton TA1 3PF 7 October -12 November 2016 PV 21 October 2016 Work selected Royal United Hospital Bath 19th January – 28th April 2017 Coleridge Cottage Nether Stowey Thursday to Monday, 4 May-22 May 2017, 11am-5pm …… Anagrams at Kingston Museum, Kingston Art 2016: Wheatfield Way, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2PS. 29 April 2016 to 2 July 2016 Juried show ……. “Building Bridges, the Female Perspective” 8th March Sept 2016 organised by Southwark Arts Forum & Tower Bridge Art at the Bridge #7. Tower Bridge Victorian Engine Rooms Tower Bridge Road London SE1 2UP. Juried show ……. The Art of Caring Exhibition at The Upper Circle Gallery, The Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames from the 12th to 24th May 2016 ……. CornerHouse Charity Exhibition for “Straight Talking Charity at Cornerhouse Arts Centre, Surbiton, Surrey Nov 30th – Dec 31st 2016 …… Exhibitions 2015 Challenging Behaviour Foundation Charity Exhibition Sun Pier House, Sun Pier, Medway Street, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4HF 3 November 2015 – 29 November 2015 ……. Court Farm Cafe Group Exhibition, organised by Kingston Arts Cafe at Court Farm Garden Centre, Worcester Park, Surrey KT4 7QH October 2015 – January 2016 …….. A Letter in Mind – The Art of Journey.Charity Exhibition at Gallery@oxo, South Bank London SE1 9PH 8th October until 18th October 2015. My donated work sold for this worthy cause ……. Brighton Sussex University Hospitals Trust National Transplant Week 2015 (7th-13th September) public art exhibition in Brighton UK at the Brighton Jubilee Library Jubilee St, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1GE Items 13 and 14 were my donations. ……. The Story So Far’, organised by Acton Arts Forum, at W3 Gallery, 185 Acton High Street, W3 9DJ From 1 July to 14th July 2015, …….. KAOS (Kingston Artists Open Studios ‘Selfie Exhibition in The Art Space at Cass Arts, Kingston Upon Thames. 6 – 14th June ……… “Flying Colours” Joint exhibition of prints, Leatherhead Theatre, Leatherhead (Jenny Meehan and Chris Birch) 3rd – 30th May 2015 …….. “Day of Reflection on Spiritual Homelessness at St Nicholas Church, Guildford GU2 4AW on 11th April 2015. Six paintings shown as part of a group exhibition ……. “Tiny Bones and Lasting Stones of Memory” (poem and painting) shown as part of Holocaust Memorial Day – Keeping the Memory Alive Through Art Exhibition, Kingston University, 16th – 17th March Juried Exhibition Kingston Museum, 26 March – 23 April 2015, Kingston College, 24th – 28th April 2015 and at the Council Chambers, Kingston Upon Thames 1st February (Third prize in adult category) …….. Exhibitions 2014 KAOS Exhibition at All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames KT1 1JP 11th Nov – 25th Nov Kingston Artists Open Studios Group Exhibition ……. “Breaking the Chains” (Anti human trafficking) Exhibition at Tower Gallery, Memorial Community Church, 395 Barking Road, London E13 8AL. 16th October – 6th November. Selected ……. “A Letter in Mind”.The National Brain Appeal Exhibition Charity Exhibition) at gallery@oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, South Bank, London, SE1 9PH. 2nd October – 5th October. Selected and donated work sold ……. Dulwich Picture Gallery Open Exhibition, Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD 30th Sept – 12th Oct 2015. Juried, (Selection panel headed by ian Dejardin, and including Rebecca Fortnum. Clive Head, Nicky Hirst and Elo Schuneman) ……. NewArt@Baker Tilly, Baker Tilly, 3rd Floor, One London Square, Cross Lanes Guildford GUT UN 7th June -20th September. Selected ……. Court Farm KAOS (Kingston Artists’ Open Studios) Cafe at Court Farm Garden Centre, Worcester Park, Surrey, 3rd May – 27th July ……. Multiple Sclerosis Trust The Secret Art Show (Charity Exhibition) Spirella Building, Bridge Road, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire SG6 4ET, 30th April – 7th May ……. Artists Meet Open Exhibition, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire WD3 1EH. 3rd March – 6th May 2014 Juried Exhibition …….. Drawn Together” Riverside Gallery, Old Town Hall Richmond Upon Thames TW9 1TP. 1st March – 25th May 2014 Juried. ……. “Sacred Spaces” KAOS Exhibition curated by Jenny Meehan, Leatherhead Theatre, Leatherhead. May 3- 31st 2014. Seven members of Kingston Artists’ Open Studios. …….. Speaking Out – Women Recovering from the Trauma of Violence Embrace Arts at the RA Centre Leicester University, Leicester 13 January – 28th March 2014 Juried Exhibition ……. Drawing Inspiration Holocaust Memorial Day Trust A-Side B-Side Gallery, Hackney Downs Studios, E8 2BT. 23rd Jan – 3rd Feb 2014 Highly Commended awarded Juried ……. “Recovery” Exhibition – Institute Of Mental Health/City Arts at Nottingham University NG7 2TU Nov 6th 2013 – May 2014 Juried Exhibition ……. Exhibitions 2013 “Recovery” Exhibition – Institute Of Mental Health/City Arts at Nottingham University NG7 2TU Nov 6th 2013 – May 2014 ……. Brixton Drawing Project Exhibition Brixton East, Brixton, SW9 Sunday 6th October ……. Orange Tree Theatre KAOS Group Exhibition Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond upon Thames, Surrey 23rd Oct – 30th Nov. ……. PARTIA “Collective Nostalgia at Aintree University Hospital Liverpool 1st Oct-1 st Nov 2013. Juried ……. Court Farm KAOS (Kingston Artists Open Studios) Group Exhibition. Cafe at Court Farm Garden Centre, Worcester Park, Surrey Sept 3rd – November 2013 …….. “Not The Royal Academy exhibition at Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings. London SE1 June – August Juried Exhibition ……. “Allotted” Curated Exhibition at The Beetroot Tree Gallery, Draycott, Derbyshire 15th June – 27th July 2013 Juried ……. “Lines Curated Exhibition at The Strand Gallery, London. Juried Exhibition June 2013 ……… Cornerhouse Arts Centre, Surbiton, Surrey, Jenny Meehan Recent Work, Solo Exhibition. June 2013 …….. Group Exhibition “Order and KAOS” (For Painters from Kingston Artists Open Studios) Leatherhead Theatre (curated by Jenny Meehan) 4th-31st May …….. Dugout Women’s Inclusive Festival – The Hoxton Arches, Cremer Street, E2 8HD (2nd March 2013) Juried ……. Open Exhibition at The Classroom Gallery, Nottingham. Selected. March 23 – April 5th ……. National Open Exhibition 2013 at Electric Picture House Congleton Cheshire March 9th – 30th Juried Exhibition ……. 2012 September – December Alliance Healthcare Exhibition, Alliance Healthcare, Chessington Surrey (SOLO) ……. The Bog Standard Gallery, Artists Meet Watersmeet, Rickmansworth Hertfordshire. WD3 1EH December 2012 …….. The Ark Centre Autumn Exhibition, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG24 9NN. October/November 2012 ……. Artists Meet Open Exhibition, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire WD3 1EH. September/October 2012 ……. Cranleigh Arts Centre Open Exhibition, Cranleigh, Surrey GU6 8AS June 2012 Juried ……. Some Kind Of Narrative” Giant Exhibition at Leatherhead Theatre, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 8DN Stephanie Greenslade – Jenny Meehan. 29th April – 25th May 2012 …….. Hidden Artists” Exhibition at Denbies Picture Gallery 2012, Denbies Wine Estate, Charity fundraising event for NSPCC …….. 2011 Jigsaw4U international.org project “Strong Voices Event 2011 at The Rose Theatre, Kingston Upon Thames in October (sculpture and photographs Charity event ………. Cranleigh Arts Centre Open Exhibition 2011 at Cranleigh Arts Centre, Cranleigh, Surrey GU6 8AS June 2011 Juried Exhibition ………. “Hidden Artists Exhibition at Denbies Picture Gallery 2011, Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking, Surrey fundraising exhibition for NSPCC 2010 Pallant House Gallery/St Wilfrid’s Hospice Open Art Exhibition at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex. 3rd June – 2nd July 2010 Juried Exhibition ……. SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Self Organised in Community Spaces) ……. *Jenny Meehan -Recent Paintings and Prints Cornerhouse Arts Centre, Surbiton Surrey June 2013 …….. “Paintings – Jenny Meehan ” Alliance Healthcare, Chessington, Surrey Sept-Dec 2012 ……. PRIZES/AWARD 2nd Prize in Digital Art Category of Chester Art Centre Open Exhibition 2017 (Leap of Faith digital print) Painting and Poetry – Third Prize in “Keeping the Memory Alive through Art”, Kingston Inter Faith Forum Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames February 2015 Painting – Highly Commended – Needhams Open Art Competition 2009. Cambridgeshire, UK. Juried Exhibition Poetry – Finalist (second place) in Literary Mary’poetry competition March 2009 Painting – Highly Commended – “Drawing inspiration Competition Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, January 2014 PUBLICATIONS Many book covers, some research publications, inclusion in various catalogues Contact for further information if required. Well, need a picture now after all that! Makes me feel tired even thinking about it!
sunflower by Jenny Meehan ©Jenny Meehan
How to Support Jenny Meehan
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Face coverings for Deaf People in Coronavirus Pandemic

Deaf Awareness Mask Designer Jenny Meehan

Masks for deaf people in Coronavirus Pandemic Reusable facemasks Redbubble shop designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams
Mental Health Awareness

jenny meehan paintings at the institute of Mental Health Nottingham part of Recovery City Arts Exhibition
Shows “Pink Girl” top and “Bandage Box” below.

Bandage Box painting on show at Recovery University of Leicester Institute of Mental Health

Pink Girl painting by Jenny Meehan © Jenny Meehan DACS All Rights Reserved
Lyrical Abstraction Paintings
A selection of my original paintings. Now without my old website, and feeling there is so much of my geometric, flat colour artwork on the Internet, I’m attempting to ensure my painting doesn’t get forgotten i think!
jenny meehan abstract paintings “Opening the Way”

Ahh, those were the days! That’s me at Kingston Artists’ Open Studios!

British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour blue white grey original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan
British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour blue white grey original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour blue white grey original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour blue white grey original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

unerring want of running water painting jenny meehan

British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

the gift of orange where the still point is abstract painting jenny meehan

British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Pillar and Moon British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

yoga Inhale British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Yoga Exhale British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Title Pilgrimage British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Drop in the Ocean British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Becoming British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Buried Mother British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

“Release” painting jenny meehan abstract paintings
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jenny meehan abstract paintings title Light Touch

Breath Two British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Vista British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

unerring want of running water painting one jenny meehan British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Joy Pain British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Debris Painting by Jenny Meehan © Jenny Meehan British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

the snail in the studio jenny meehan abstract painting British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

waterfight mad moment British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Simple Piece British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

“The Realm of Inbetween/Pushing it a bit” abstract lyrical expressionist british paintings jenny meehan British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

No Fear British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Harbour Painting abstract lyrical expressionist british paintings jenny meehan© Jenny Meehan

“River Journey” abstract lyrical expressionist british paintings jenny meehan© Jenny Meehan

Mending British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Resurrection One British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Jenny Meehan’s Studio Tent for Painting

Cove – Jenny Meehan Acrylic Painting British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan
Very textural…which you cannot see too well here!

Alabaster Loving – Oil Painting by Jenny Meehan British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

bird and fountain naive art style painting oil on linen by jenny meehan British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Whatever You Want – Abstract painting by Jenny Meehan British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Bright and Breezy” Jenny Meehan Acrylic and Oil Painting
There’s a little memory from childhood of a tuft of a tree growing on the edge of a cliff

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Oil on canvas 50x70cm painting by Jenny Meehan a personal
response to Max Beckmann and Dodd Procter in terms of style and subject… I’ve wanted to paint this for ages!

Running (one) painting for Holocaust Memorial Day by Jenny Meehan . One of three entries to the “Drawing Inspiration” Competition. “Running (one) was shortlisted “Highly Commended”

save our souls oil painting based on an image by frissel. I also had in mind Ophelia in Hamlet, on finding the madness of Hamlet. British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

RealisationBritish painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

London Downpour British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

deluge British painting Lyrical Abstraction style by artist designer jenny meehan jennyjimjams colour original abstract artwork to buy and image licensing ©Jenny Meehan

Calm down photo by Jenny Meehan ©Jenny Meehan
Another #photo
As a passionate tea lover… This image covers two big dimensions of my lived experience… Drinking tea and processing anger! ( thankfully, in reality, not expressed through throwing objects!)
Apologies re the hash tags.. I have copied and pasted from my jennymeehan_jennymeehan Instagram account.
“In my photographs I consider light and darkness, black and white, tones and markmaking rather than colour. I tend to keep the #colour #love moving in my paintings or designs now rather than photography.
Also, it’s worked out that the majority of my painting has moved into abstraction, with only occasional figurative elements being incorporated at times.
Most of my pictorial imagery is either photographic or drawn. I often use collage or digital collage to experiment with combining these two strands of my creative practice as I continue to enjoy graphic arts.”
Well, that’s it from me this June. I’m busy making the most of the good weather, which means I can work outside in the fresh air with generous amounts of beautiful Keim Mineral paint and experiment to my hearts content on a larger scale than possible in my studio tent or on my painters table, AKA the kitchen table.How to Support Jenny Meehan
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March Abstract Painting; Sabbath – Artist Jenny Meehan

March abstract lyrical painting expressionist romantic art artist jenny meehan ©Jenny meehan jennyjimjams
Well, I’m doing very many things right now, but true to my word, I have one of my monthly abstract paintings to show you. In some ways I don’t like showing them quite so soon as I normally keep my paintings hidden for a good few months before I show them, but for this year I will be different. With the Coronavirus pandemic and no Open Studios events I won’t have the usual opportunity to show recent work so I need to display my paintings online a bit more consistently over the course of this year.
This is a painting which includes collaged elements. The roots of my love of painting can be found in several places yet a significant one is time spent gazing at walls in need of repair and decoration. Well, , not just walls, but peeling layers or paper, paint, metal, plastic: coatings and coverings of various kinds subjected to wear and tear, the elements, and the general effects of time! It’s not surprising to me that I now see my fascination emerging in my paintings. I’ve beaten my way through some rigorous experiments with colour and texture, and now expressing the idea of “beauty from brokenness” partly through the use of torn and cut collaged pieces seems to sit well with me.
While I am naming these monthly paintings by each month, it doesn’t agree with me to not think a little deeper, so as is the case with a lot of my original fine paintings I have also given the March painting an additional name; Sabbath. Myself and my husband have been thinking and talking a lot about Sabbath rest, and the need to just stop and have breaks in the passages of activity which run so enthusiastically through.
April’s painting is still in progress… So will be a bit late! And you see, my April blog post has moved into May…. Oh dear!
I have just created myself an account through which you can gift me a small amount in appreciation of my creative work… I will use the money for materials rather than coffee I suspect, though I will enjoy a coffee or two from time to time! Take a look and if you feel so inclined please make a small financial gift to me safely and securely through this means! Every little helps! https://ko-fi.com/jennymeehan
Frank Bowling Painter
This is an extract from a really interesting read on the artist Frank Bowling.
The constant pushing of boundaries regarding experimentation with paint and materials is obviously very inspiring!
https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/31/frank-bowling-material-explorations
https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/31/frank-bowling-material-explorations
This section on Frank Bowling’s larger poured paintings is a joy to read… Also very interesting is how he changed his painting when in a smaller space in London and makes mie delight again, as always that “Necessity is the Mother of Invention”.
“London and the ‘poured paintings’
Always looking for new ways of painting, both in terms of representation and the application of materials, Bowling stopped creating map paintings around 1973. He wanted to remove all signs of direct touch and directed application of paint, to move away from expressionist gesture and ‘invent [new] ways of using the traditional ways of applying paint’.
Thus began a new phase of painting for Bowling when he produced what are now referred to as the ‘poured paintings’.
Bowling created these poured paintings using a self-made wooden contraption that allowed him to tip, tilt and twist the canvas while the paint was poured directly onto it from heights of up to two metres. In this way he could exert a certain level of control over the direction and speed at which the paint travelled down the canvas, while also allowing it to find its own paths. Bowling first experimented with this method in France in 1973 while visiting artist Elizabeth Frink. He then developed the process further when he returned to New York, where the large loft space he rented lent itself to such a physical and expansive technique.
The tilting platform was 6 ft 6 in (198 cm) in length and had pins in the legs at one end that allowed Bowling to adjust the angle of the board and thereby the speed at which the paint travelled. Bowling tacked raw cotton duck canvas onto this board, then soaked the canvas in soapy water until it was dripping wet in order to release the surface tension of the fibres so that the ‘surface becomes taut and allows the paint to move more smoothly and easily down the surface’.
and
“After this, the paint was applied at the upper edge of the canvas, and the board was lifted and the paint allowed to run and spill down to the bottom, resulting in richly layered shifts of colour. Agility was key; Bowling made these paintings completely alone and ran between the two ends of the mechanism, tilting and then catching it again before the paint reached the bottom so that the colours swirled back on themselves. As Bowling described it: ‘I gradually take the pegs out of the table legs so the paint just gradually moved from high to low. And of course, you have to watch it like a hawk because it could run too fast and then you’d have to settle it down. And then sometimes I would let it just go whoosh.'”
After this extract, the article then goes on to describe how the limited studio space Frank Bowling had when in London affected his paintings and also how the way the paint was dried very quickly, (out of necessity due to limited space) , produced paint effects which Frank Bowling liked and replicated later.
I find it comforting to read this… Its an example of how what can first appear as restrictions don’t automatically mean the outcome of them is restrictive. With my own painting what I do is certainly affected, for example, by the seasons. Activities carried out in the Studio Tent are different to those painting experiments and experiences done in the garden. The weather has a big impact. I too use different drying conditions to influence what happens with the paint. I use light and the way is varies over the course of the year to direct the kind of creative calendar I follow. It is an inspiring and wonderful thing to respond naturally in a spirit of exploration and positive anticipation of new things coming out of apparent limitations.
I remember seeing a programme on Frank Bowling… I think it was last year, and though he then relied on others more physically due to restrictions on his own mobility, it wasn’t a negative… It isn’t… It is just difference of circumstances and adaptions and changes which alter a process. It is no “less” Frank Bowling’s painting.
When we face change it involves loss. But it is not loss into nothingness. It is a movement into more. Its just we don’t know what that more is, and it can be scary because of that.
I sometimes think this is why I love painting so much? I put myself constantly in a place of risk. It may be an odd aspect of having been too well acquainted with fear, insecurity and trauma in my developmental years? Maybe a positive aspect is that fear in the realm of painting actually seems very safe in comparison? I don’t know… I could be getting over analytical here but it’s an interesting consideration I feel.
Coronavirus Pandemic Art Design Project
On a slightly different matter, I would again like to include something about my Coronavirus Pandemic creative art project. It is the case that now the weather is improving and I am able to move into my Studio Tent. So, rather like the birds in their nests, after much moving around of objects and clutter, and rearrangement of elements, a place is prepared for the birth of new wonders… YES….it is the beginning of the painting season for me! So I will be less on the computer! But I do still add the occasional new design option for my facecovering range. I will continue to do so. Even with the vaccinations I think this Pandemic will need a lot of patience and the wearing of facecoverings is going to be a long term experience for us all.
I’ve designed 200 + options deaf. Deaf, lipreaders, hard of hearing, hearing loss, etc facemasks! This week, (now in May…Oops! is deaf awareness week once again. So I good time to flag these up once more.
It’s my coronavirus pandemic creative art project. This has provided a useful option for face coverings I believe and its my way of using my creative abilities in a more explicitly useful way. By the way, I don’t see my painting as not useful, however, I can see that when it comes to buying things, buying a face covering at the present time will probably feel a bit more of a utilitarian move for many than buying a painting!
Redbubble manufacture and fulfil your order, and offer worldwide delivery and excellent quality and service.
As well as my deaf awareness range, printed on masks, badges, stickers and more, and consisting of over 200 different designs, I have many other fashionable and decorative, face covers here on my artist profile at Redbubble, plus beautiful interior decoration designs for home and office.
If you like to double up your facemask the unfitted Redbubble masks work really well over a disposable mask if you only want the deaf awareness communication prompt for specific situations.
I hope they are helpful and do please give your feedback for this coronavirus pandemic creative project as I’ve been working hard and feel passionate about it being a useful resource.
https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennymeehan
https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennyjimjams
Jenny Meehan/jennyjimjams are both Redbubble artist portfolios of British contemporary Artist Designer Jenny Meehan.
Here are some examples from the range of over 200 options!
Digital Innovations in Mental Health Conference – Project by Dr Becky Inkster
A couple of years ago I contributed to this event by bringing some of my art along for an exhibition as part of the DIMH conference in London. I attended the conference and found it amazing… Very interesting indeed and very well organised. This year it will be online, as it was last year, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
I have contributed my short film/video
An Online Vigil; “Watch and Pray” Violence Video Poem by Artist/ Writer Jenny Meehan
I created this video poem over March 2021.
My understanding of a vigil is that it might be a place where we stand together, and draw our attention to the shared experience of gender based violence. As a survivor, shame can be isolating, yet for even those women and girls who don’t have a direct experience, they, too, feel the effects of gender based violence of many kinds in our societies and communities. It leaves its mark. It devalues us, making us a commodity. It objectifies. It deletes. It silences. It can destroy a sense of self, and rob a person of a concept of their value.
In my video, I read a poem I initially wrote way back in 2013. You also hear variations of the reading; though they are spoken by me in the video, my intention is that they symbolise many different peoples voices; suggesting not only a singular testimony but a corporate one. There are many different visual references in the short film, but they are best just viewed without my additional comments I think.
Some background information on the poem:
I contributed three pieces of my visual art to an exhibition at Embrace Arts, the University of Leicester’s Arts Centre, January to March 2014, which was part of a research project and Symposium called “Speaking Out; Survivors, Artists and Public Services Against Gender Violence”. My contribution involved answering some questions about some of my own experiences of violence. The process resulted in me writing the poem “Violence”, though it was not included in my submission at the time. I kept it for myself.
My Christian faith is a big dimension of my life, and a constant inspiration, so the concept of a Vigil resonates for me in a particular way in relation to that.
The making of the video has been a devotional act; yes, a form of prayer; through which I have been able to look back on the day (over 35 years ago) in which I was drugged and raped, and hold it in my mind. I have held it in my mind in a way which I was not able to hold it, at all, previously. And in the creation of it, I’ve made it with a consciousness I didn’t have before; that I am one of many – very many – and that the dissociation, the fragmentation of identity, and felt isolation it generated, are a shared experience.
There are many forms of violence. My short film references just one, based on a personal remembrance. But there are thousands and thousands of personal stories, and many voices silenced across the years.
So I hope that the watching of this video is indeed a period of devotional watching for others, not only myself. It’s my way of participating in a wave of awareness and watchfulness which I hope will contribute in some respects to help effect positive change in our societies and communities worldwide.
https://jennymeehan.wordpress.com/
Original Poem the video is based on:
Violence
is the blinding light which brings
darkness
wipes the words from my lips
removes all trace
of speech
yet tells me to be quiet, and so keeps me from
recalling
the sound of myself.
Violence
Is the blinding light which brings
Complete darkness
Takes the words from my
Open lips
Removes all trace
Of speech
Yet tells me to be quiet,
But I am recalling the sound of myself, that you may see.
Jenny Meehan 2013
And here below is the text submitted for the six still images I selected to be shown as part of the DIMH 2021 Online Conference.
“Jenny Meehan is a British Contemporary Artist based in Surrey/South West London.
“With a process-led approach, I act in response to the materials I work with. It is a spirit and emotion led practice; an articulation of fragmentary experience. All I create is autobiographically rooted and expressionistic. My art working acts as a kind of “re-membering”; a way of bringing things together.
My interest in a contemplative way of life means that I view my art work as a tool which enables the viewer to connect with their own emotions, giving space in a busy world for imagination and connection. Working with abstraction provides an opportunity for openness, allowing the viewer to determine their own path into my work, and this is coloured by their own experience and memory, unique to them.”
While my romantic, lyrical, expressionistic, abstract paintings offer a contemplative space free from cares and concerns, other strands of my practice engage with subjects ranging from violence, trauma recovery, and themes arising from my own experience of psychoanalysis/psychotherapy
My vision for my work centres around the constant need and desire to push creative boundaries and to experiment with and explore the media available to me.”
Artworks
1. “Pen and Ink on a Torn Strip” Jenny Meehan ©Jenny Meehan
Unique Torn Digital Print on Paper.
2. Digital Print of my motif; “Yellow Character/Flight” ©Jenny Meehan
This expresses the “flight” in the “fight-or-flight response” in PTSD. This is available printed on many substrates as wall art and stationery via the print on demand marketplace redbubble:
Jenny Meehan’s Artist Profile:
https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennyjimjams
3. “Dark Night: The dark, too, blooms and sings” Original painting acrylic/mixed media on board ©Jenny Meehan
4. “Sorrow” Paint on paper ©Jenny Meehan
5. “Fugue” Paint on stretched linen.©Jenny Meehan
6. “Figure on Uncertain Ground” Digital Print on Paper ©Jenny Meehan
Luke Hannam
Quote from:
https://www.thelondonlist.com/people/luke-hannamhttps://www.thelondonlist.com/people/luke-hannam
“A great deal of your work is figurative; why is that, and what is it about a person’s character that interests you?
Drawing figures or rather drawing people, which is what you are actually doing, is, I believe, the most direct way of dealing with the complexities of being alive. Human beings are never answers they are always questions and it’s this is quality that I like. For me, pictures or paintings are not political things, they are not trying tell us something specific or change our mind but rather to lead us into unknowable places and allow us to feel rather than to find comfort in knowledge. The human element represents this for me. It’s ultimately about vulnerability and the confidence to tell the truth about your desires and pleasures rather than construct personas that pretend to be wise or worse civilized. “
I’m chewing this over… As I ask myself about my work. Particularly in the light of my recent video poem
An Online Vigil; “Watch and Pray”
There’s a tremendous video here on Luke Hannam… Very thought provoking. So thought provoking I can only watch it in little segments, to then reflect on!
https://www.animamundigallery.com/exhibition-luke-hannam-the-compass-and-the-rosaryhttps://www.animamundigallery.com/exhibition-luke-hannam-the-compass-and-the-rosary
Affordable Art Shop Online; Home Office, Workplaces, Offices, and All Interior Spaces
There are many types of fixed and free standing sneeze guards for use as office dividers, canteen dividers and cafe screens. I suspect these will stay with us, even as the situation with Coronavirus changes. It got me thinking…
Hygiene partitions are usually made plastic or similar substrates. At home or in workplaces there is often the need to have different functions within the same room: with a room divider we can easily obtain separate areas that can guarantee privacy and good soundproofing, without necessarily making masonry work. In working environments, especially open spaces, there’s a big use of “office booths”, flexible modular structures that create isolated spaces perfect for workstations or small meetings and workshops.
All of this in effect means more wall space, which is great for art! So take a look at my abstract artwork on the print-on-demand site redbubble! Make your work environment beautiful!
You don’t need to pay around £25 pounds per month to rent art for your workspace. Because you can purchase it, and keep it to long term. Redbubble print independent artists art and designs on many different substrates and different formats. You can buy a selection of my artwork there! It’s open edition and unsigned, but I buy from them myself and I’ve always been delighted with the quality. (If you are not, they have excellent customer service.)
Look at my artists profile, the main one being https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennyjimjams/shop
Take a look! I imagined that there will be many more screens and workspace dividers, appearing in our office space is because of the Coronavirus pandemic. And just think how great it would be to use that, in effect, extra wall space to help increase your employees and your staff’s, well being.
Screens are often relatively lightweight, but you don’t need heavy artworks to put on screens. On redbubble there are lightweight, posters, and art work printed on card, and other thin substrates, which are easy to apply to a smooth surface screen by means of hook and loop tape, (also known as velcro or similar brand) Hook and loop tape can be purchased to hold many different loads and is heavy duty. It’s possible to mount art work on two screens and room dividers very easily using it. It’s something you can do yourself. It also means it’s easy to remove the artwork and change it around.
With the covid_19 pandemic we are all thinking about hygiene, of course. Artwork can be easily removed and art on smooth laminated surfaces can be wiped down with a mild detergent. You could consider buying artwork printed on fabric too, which can be washed! Redbubble print on wall hangings, headscarves (which make lovely square wall hangings too!) So think about it.
Think about how you could enhance your workspace, be it at home or elsewhere with attractive, affordable, easy to buy prints!
Most of my artwork on redbubble is in a geometric abstract style. I favour using softened diffused edges combined with flat colour areas, drawing on colour and pattern to convey a sense of classical harmony. The romantic, emotional, impact of colour on our sense of well-being is a vital ingredient in our lives and its a delight to make my art and design so accessible to all.
I have a lot of patterned and tiled art and design, as well as art images which act a a centrepiece or which stands with slightly more independence. Patterns are very relaxing to look at and communicate to people a sense of balance and order. I’ve used them myself, rather a lot during the coronavirus pandemic to help calm my mind. And this could be a great asset to you, your company, and staff as well.
To enjoy the rhythmic beauty of pattern in your work environment through motivating and inspiring art helps productivity and happiness in all kinds of workspaces, including home offices. Buying my art from Redbubble is affordable for all, as companies of any size, and any budget can benefit from my art in the work environment. As we also increasingly working from home, why not make your work space and office space, a place of inspiration? Make your work space a place of inspiration and contemplation!

Some Examples of Redbubble Products Suitable for Home and Office Workspaces. Screens and Panels
Art Board Prints
Printed on firm, textured mat boards.
From Redbubble website:
“What is an Art Board Print?
Art Boards are professionally printed on watercolor textured 4-ply boards, and they are perfect for series/collection presentations. They come with 3mm velcro dots (4 per Art Board) so you can hang them on walls, doors, your fridge, your best friend… We don’t judge! They are also individually wrapped in cellophane sleeves so they can get to you safely.”
Redbubble Canvas Mounted Prints
Description from the Redbubble website;
” Product information
Easy-to-hang canvas print with that airy “floating off the wall” look
Canvas is 15/64 inch (4mm) thick with clean folded edges
With wooden rear spacer, print stands 3/4 inch (2cm) away from the wall
Mount directly to the wall using included 3M tabs
No nails, screws, or holes in the wall required”
Redbubble Art Prints
Description from the Redbubble website;
“Gallery-grade prints on high-quality paper, this is the real deal
Lightly textured 100% cotton paper
Custom sizes, based on artwork dimensions. Check size chart if self-framing
Dimensions include a 1 – 2 inch (2.5 – 5.0cm) white border to assist in framing
Large prints shipped in tubes, small & medium prints in protective flat mailers”
Redbubble Posters
Description from the Redbubble website:
“Blank walls suck, so bring some life to your dorm, bedroom, office, studio, wherever
Printed on 185gsm semi gloss poster paper
Custom cut – refer to size chart for finished measurements
Includes a 3/16 inch (5mm) white border to assist in framing”
Redbubble Metal Prints
Description from the Redbubble website;
“Immortalize your favorite art on durable lightweight aluminum that will outlive us all
Choose your finish: Gloss, for brilliant colors and detail, or Matte, for a soft, even look with minimal glare
Gently rounded corners
Easily wipe clean with a soft cloth
Ready to hang, with a back mount fixture so the art seems to float in front of the wall”
Redbubble Photographic Prints
Description from the Redbubble website;
“Absolutely stunning photo reproductions, but don’t take our word for it, check the reviews
Superior quality silver halide prints
Archival quality paper
Choose your finish: luster for a fine grain pebble texture, or metallic for a glossy finish and exceptional visual interest and depth”
Redbubble Headscarves
These are one of my favourite types of print. I have them in my own home as they are lightweight, large, and easy to gently hand wash. They come in a square format which I love.
The colours of any fabric printed by the dye sublimation process tend to veer on the bright side, so while I haven’t noticed any fading due to washing I would be fine if there was a bit of fade as I prefer slightly muted colours. However I’ve hand washed mine several times and they look as bright as ever! I have included them in my suggestions for wall art because they look great hanging against a plain white wall. They are slightly transparent, so not good against anything but plain white. They do offer an interesting option for wall art though, and can be easily attached to the wall with hook and loop tape (velcro) or even those very lightweight self adhesive tabs you can get for wall art now. If you used the self adhesive tabs which include a small metal hook, you could make a small cotton loop on the corners of the headscarf and just hook those over.
Description from the Redbubble website;
“Full print is visible on the front and reverse
Microfiber polyester with a slightly transparent effect
Hand wash only. Do not dry clean or tumble dry.”
They are quite see-through, but look great against a plain white wall or room divider, office partition, or office partition.
Redbubble Tapestries
Mm, not quite sure why they call them tapestries, I guess because they are fabric and hang on the wall, but the word tapestry for mean means sewn and embroidered… Quite different.
However, this is actually my favourite type of wall art from Redbubble mostly because it is large scale wall art, easy to store and wash, rich in colour and I feel compliments my flat colour geometric abstract design style particularly well. I have several. As with the scarves, the colours of any fabric printed by the dye sublimation process tend to vere on the bright side. The surface is lovely and has a soft and slightly silky feel which is very good indeed.
Wall Tapestry description from Redbubble website;
“Call it a wall tapestry, call it a wall hanging, call it the new centerpiece of your decor
Intense, vivid colors and fine line detail, printed for you when you order
100% lightweight polyester with finished edge
Cold gentle machine wash, line dry or tumble dry low, do not iron or bleach
Note: There is a 1 – 2 inch (2.5 – 5.0cm) tolerance on all printed textile products.”
PS… I have washed mine by hand with slightly warm water several times and it’s still looking great! These could also be attached to your walls with methods like those I suggested in the headscarves section, though due to the larger size using a pole, or making a small hem and threading cord through the top of the wall hanging, would probably be worth considering too.
When you buy my range of selected art and design via Redbubble, you help sustain my artworking in a way I really appreciate. I get an artists margin each time you buy my work printed on products and you get a good shopping experience via Redbubble. So I can focus on creating and you can access my art easily in an accessible form.
If you do prefer original paintings, I’m producing at least 20 original paintings each year on average, so do contact me directly via the contact form on this blog to let me know what type of abstract/semi abstract painting you are looking for. I don’t post all my original paintings online, and I am happy to carry out a limited amount of commissioned work each year.
I no longer keep a website for the time being at least so please use the contact form here or my other social media if need be.
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
The only time I entered a piece of work in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, I did so realising that it would probably get rejected, as the odds of it getting selected were so small. However, I wanted to submit an artwork at least once, and I had a better reason to that year because I have already decided that I wanted my painting to be displayed in a Gallery at Waterloo (sadly no longer) which held a yearly “Not the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition”
Here’s some information on my painting “The Upper Room” (image below) which was selected for the “Not the Royal Academy” exhibition at Llewellyn Alexander (Fine Paintings) LTD in 2013. It is a shame the gallery no longer exists. It was a gallery I often used to visit when in the area, and, as I mentioned, I decided to enter the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition that year specifically in order that I might submit my rejected work into the “Not the Royal Academy” show. I was thankfully successful, and very flattered too, because my – very abstract – painting was not usually the type of painting they usually favoured in that particular gallery, which lent towards the representational paintings. When I used to visit, often on my therapy days when I was on my way to Nelson Square, I used to particularly enjoy looking at the miniatures. They were always very friendly and pleasant in there.
So here is my blurb on the Upper Room:
“The Upper Room” is a painting in which I started with no idea of the direction it might take me in, instead responding to each mark and colour as the painting progressed in a process based approach. Using both my instincts and formal considerations, I ended up with this. Its still one I am keen on.
Emotionally, it made me think of the New Testament account of Jesus taking the Last Supper with his disciples, I think because of the sense of presence and warmth it communicated to me emotionally, (The Holy Spirit, the comforter, “I will be with you”) even though it contains a large area of black. Also, because of the way it is held together with a building type structure; upper and a lower areas, and suggestions of both entrance and exit. Pentecost also happened in an “Upper Room” though not the same one, I don’t think.
Here’s more background regarding the “Not the Royal Academy” Exhibition at Llewellyn Alexander…I have copied and pasted it from a past post. It was text used by the gallery to promote their show.
“What happens to the pictures rejected by the Royal Academy?
Every year over eight thousand paintings are submitted to the Summer Exhibition (update… Now the submission limit is set at 16,500 and its always filled up quickly) at the Royal Academy – the largest open art exhibition in the world.
Only around 800 actually make it on to the walls.
So what happens to all the artists that have been rejected?
As soon as the artists get their rejection slips from the Royal Academy many of them collect their pictures and set off across the river to the Llewellyn Alexander Gallery (opposite the Old Vic Theatre) at Waterloo. Artists are told immediately whether their painting has been accepted by the Gallery. Oils, watercolours, mixed media, pastels and drawings of all shapes and sizes pass through the doors of this lively Gallery on the South Bank. Every picture is for sale and the gallery is re-hung with new work at three-weekly intervals throughout the summer, making it a constantly changing show.
NOT THE ROYAL ACADEMY
Inspired by the original “Salon Des Refusés” held in Paris in the 19th Century when artists such as Manet exhibited his rejected and infamous “Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe” and Whistler his rejected “Symphony in White – the White Girl”.
That year the exhibition ran FROM 10 JUNE TO 17 AUGUST 2013
This was the only year I entered the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and probably will remain so as I have a very limited budget for Open Exhibition Entries. Basically these kind of Open Submission Art Exhibitions are used as fund raisers by many organisations, though thankfully not all.
I’ve nothing against making donations.. I sometimes do, and it’s often appropriate. However my thoughts on the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition are that it’s a fun, fundraising affair which many enjoy. It is not, however, a means to provide a worthy estimation on an artists work for an art collector or art lover.
So enjoy, submit, if you are able, and visit if you wish. All good.
Don’t, however pretend to yourself that the art submitted is “critiqued” and somehow what gets through, (I refer to the roughly 700 general public members whose work does get through) is anything more than a stroke of luck. It’s a big thrill, and I don’t want to dim the light of that, mostly because it still seems to add status and value to a work if its selected, and that’s very good for an artist. I am always pleased for artists I know when they strike lucky. But let’s be sensible.
How long is spent on looking at the art submitted in the first stage of the process with 16,500 entries? And then the second?
Then your chances are chopped down once more, as when it comes to wall hanging, it’s really just got to be about how it fits in with the decoration/aesthetics of the hang.
So celebrate if you are lucky, as you would with the lottery and any other fortunate event. But if you want your work to be exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, know you may well need to invest a few hundred pounds over the years to make numerous submissions and you may be better off choosing an Open Submission Art Exhibition which you have more chance of getting your work selected in.
I feel it would have been appropriate to lower the artist submission fee of £35 this year, as a material expression of the theme, in which the concept of inclusivity and inclusion appears to feature. Even an artist submission fee of £15, with maybe an additional fee if through to the next round of judging, or a voluntary donation, would still generate a massive amount of money with the 16,500 entries accepted. But it sadly will not be reduced, I predict, because it doesn’t need to be reduced; the demand for artists to enter their work in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is huge and they will use that to increase the money they generate from it. It is a charitable organisation. However, I wonder if the submitting artists may also appreciate some of the charitable principles at work in the process of making art submissions to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition too?
If you would like to donate to the Royal Academy in this way, that’s super. No need to take the shine off your kind donation. Bear in mind that this type of event is not inclusive in a true, material, sense, though, and that the artists need to arrange their sales, will pay commission for work sold, (30% I think) pay £35 per work to submit, and incur all costs in providing the art work.
A side thought… How odd it is that when the BBC make programmes on the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – I mean that one where they show some artist’s applying – One, at least, always gets in! What are the odds of them making the programme and not one of their featured artists getting in? It must be that they know beforehand that at least one will definitely get in, or the programme would not work very well at all. Or maybe the do filming of a larger number and then cut down their selection… However, they must somehow know that at least one artist will make it through, or it would be a very large investment of potentially wasted time! I dislike that; it gives a rather false impression of an artist’s chances of getting selected, surely?
Oh well. It’s obviously not such an “Open” Exhibition. With only around 700/800 general public artworks getting in, and submissions not being anonymous, we realise that the process of selection is certainly a fairly predetermined pathway, in the main, even if not entirely.
Bit of Royal Academy Summer Exhibition History, just a snippet;
“The number of pictures increased each year from 547 in 1781 to 1,165 in 1821 so
they had to be hung frame to frame. The position was determined by the Hanging
Committee and the position of a painting was critical to it being seen.”
If you are an art buyer and really want to support an artist, contact them directly and buy their work from them, direct. Many artists take part in Open Studios events, and are also normally very happy to meet you in order for you to view their artwork by appointment.

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Digital Art Image Licensing Information for digital images by Jenny Meehan AKA jennyjimjams.
All images are ©Jenny Meehan. The licensing of my digital images is one of my most important income streams – An income which sustains my creative work. Permission for use is essential.
Most of my image licensing is managed via DACS (a copyright management/collecting society) with some smaller projects/requests managed directly by me. This depends on the project and context.
My image licensing fees are broadly in line with the industry standard, with significant reductions for charities and or smaller projects of special interest to me.
More information on the process of obtaining a licence to use a digital image of my work can be found at the top of the “Quick Stop Art Gallery” online art gallery page.
Here is a link to my online art image gallery:
In case you are not aware, you need to request permission and pay a licence fee if you want to use an artist’s work in anything from merchandise or an advert, to a book, film or website. If an artist’s work is published in any form, permission is needed.
If you require copyright free images, then you will need to source them from a different website, for example a stock photography website or a copyright/royalty free image website.
I trust this is helpful.
Deaf Awareness and Disability Visibility – Jenny Meehan/jennyjimjams’ Coronavirus Pandemic Project
July 25, 2020
Deaf Awareness and Disability Visibility
Deaf Awareness and Disability Visibility; Face Masks for Deaf/deaf/Hard of Hearing
(plus anyone who requires assistance in seeing facial expressions, lips to read, or in other diverse spectra of communication difficulties)
With so many exhibitions cancelled, I have a little bit more time, so I am doing what I enjoy and writing another journal post! It’s likely I will put my journal posts on hold for a while, as I am using this time as a time of focusing on facemask, stickers and pinbadge designs, including many designs to help increase deaf awareness, plus providing an option and more choice for those who find communications made harder due to mass masking in the community.
While I am mostly involved in Fine Art, my practice is eclectic and I enjoy design work. I’m going to ramble on down one track now, as my most recent Coronavirus Creative Project is in the forefront of my mind.
My Jenny Meehan/Jennyjimjams Redbubble Shop is here:
https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennyjimjams/shop
I add designs to my Deaf/deaf/Hard of Hearing Face Mask Collection every few weeks, so do take a look at the latest new designs!
I also have many patterned Reusable Face Mask designs on my Redbubble profile too, so take a look at those too!
If you are here to look at a wider overview of my Fine Art, then scroll on down to the various past posts to get a wider overview. The MENU tab shows the four pages of this journal, two of which are dedicated to my knee replacement journey and the other two contact pages.
As this is a wordpress blog, you can locate the stream of my posts in reverse chronological order by scrolling downwards, or take a pot luck approach by using the SEARCH box. I don’t currently have a website, apart from my old one, jamartlondon.com, as that’s something I plan to update next year. If you scroll right down to the bottom, There is s RECENT POSTS section where you can pick a recent stream of journalling. Pressing the SHOW FULL SITE tab is another option.

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Jenny Meehan: Deaf/deaf Masks Communication Prompt Aids
Deaf Awareness and Disability Visibility; Jenny Meehan jennyjimjams
Aside: Jennyjimjams is a nick name given to me by a dentist I worked for once when a Dental Nurse. I rather like it, so use it in some of my social media and one of my two redbubble artist profiles! I do, also, do quite a bit of work in my pyjamas, as I have happily been working from home for years, and you can do that kind of thing!
About this Project:
I have been very busy designing many options for reusable cloth barrier type face masks! Inspired by a past career as a Dental Nurse, in which I wore a surgical face mask every working day, the mask topic has always been on my interest radar, and was right back in March 2020. I do wish we were wearing them indoors in public spaces earlier in greater numbers, but, well, we are finally here in Coronavirus Pandemic face covering/mass masking time.
This is not very good for communications though…particularly for those who are Deaf, deaf, Hard of Hearing or have other communication needs which mean they really do need to see your face when talking. There are many, many ways you can help make things easier, and the most important thing is to be patient, disability aware, and respectful. Ask the person you are talking to what they would like you to do to help. Different people will have different communication needs.
Everyone is very different. Some people are comfortable with you lowering your mask at distance, others may not be. There are speech to text apps, pen and paper, good lighting, reduction of background noise, making sure you face the person directly, re phrase and repeat if necessary. These are just a few suggestions. There are many Deaf/deaf/Hard of Hearing bloggers blogging about their experiences of being out and about in the Coronavirus Pandemic, what mass masking means for them, and how it affects their lives. So taking the time to speak to deaf/Deaf/Hard of Hearing folk, and/or reading on the internet about pandemic life and what communication barriers it presents, is all a good use of time.
Clear Face masks, See-Through Masks, Window Masks are very popular, but may not suit every persons needs or preferences. I feel the more choice people have the better, and so I hope my designs can be a useful resource for many Deaf/deaf hard of hearing folk, especially for those routine tasks like shopping, etc where most of the communications will be with hearing folk. I’ve made a HUGE range of different options with respect to wording and design, and I hope my energy spent in creating fashionable, stylish designs, in over 100 different options, brings an extra bit of a smile to anyone who benefits from using them. I have worked really hard to create a good range, because inclusive design matters and I wanted to put my creative skill to a good use at this difficult time.
While many people lipread, its ONE mode of communication and lack of awareness and knowledge mean that if a deaf person is wearing a clear mask, window mask, or see-through mask, the hearing person may assume that seeing their lips alone will suffice, whereas this is not always the case at all. For example, A deaf/Deaf person wearing a window mask may still want someone to write something down for clarification, or prefer to use AI… There are many wonderful speech to texts Apps available. Or to write something down may be preferable full stop.
No group of people is identical (obvious, but we need reminding!) and so the more options people have the better. Deaf/deaf hard of hearing people, and anyone with hearing loss to varying degrees, (or other communication difficulties) encounters more difficulty with communication due to the Coronavirus Pandemic mass masking. The wearing of barrier masks in the community is, in my opinion, very wise, but it is a supplementary measure to distancing. It is keeping the physical distance which is key, and for brief interactions, the guidance is currently (at the time of writing this, in England), that one metre+ for distance is sufficient.
When a deaf/Deaf Hard of hearing person, (or someone who needs others to remove their mask to aid communication for any other reason) is shopping, for example, if they request you remove your face mask to help with a brief communication, it is important that you are aware this is a perfectly reasonable, and not an “unsafe” request. The reality is, that if you remove your face mask for someone to aid communication, it is THEM not yourself, who has more prerogative to make that decision, in relation to their own choices with respect to any risk factors. Note.. Obviously we all have rights, and the current situation, it’s really vital to respect other peoples level of comfort and feelings and not violate those. I write what I write with respect to the principle. In practice, there will be people, from both positions, who are not comfortable with this option and mutual respect is key. The key is, you ask! And communicate clearly and respectfully.
Deaf Awareness and Disability Visibility Coronavirus Pandemia!
I’ve created a large collection of different communication prompt/deaf awareness reusable face coverings. Take a look at one whole collection here:
https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennyjimjams/shop?artistUserName=jennyjimjams&collections=1511687&iaCode=all-departments&sortOrder=recent
There is a maximum of 100 designs per collection on redbubble, and I have exceeded that number, so in addition to the deaf awareness and disability awareness designs in the collection, I have now many others floating around among my other redbubble.com artworks!
I have TWO redbubble artist profiles, jennyjimjams.redbubble.com and JennyMeehan.redbubble.com. I’m putting my Deaf/deaf/Hard of Hearing and Disability Visibility designs on my jennyjimjams.redbubble.com profile. Jennyjimjams.redbubble.com is the redbubble Artist shopfront I use for graphic designs and single, fine art type artworks. I use my other redbubble.com artist shopfront, JennyMeehan.redbubble.com, mostly for surface pattern designs of interest to interior designers, for home decoration, interior stylists and homes and interiors kind of things!
With Christmas2020 coming… And how different is that going to be this year? Online shopping is going to be the way ahead for many of us when looking for Christmas gifts and presents. I’m happy to sing the praises of Redbubble as an online print-on-demand Marketplace, as I have ordered from them myself and have always been delighted with the products I received. Redbubble are the ones who you make your transaction with…they fulfil your order. Yet as the indie artist who created the graphics printed on your product, I get an artist’s margin, so please choose my designs if you like what I am doing here!
Thoughts on the Mass Masking Battleground!
If you are not interested in my thoughts on mass masking, skip this part and shimmy down to see some of my deaf/Deaf hard of hearing, hearing loss designs. I create a few more each week, so there are new ones appearing all the time. This blog shows only a selection.
PS: Please send me feedback, via this blogs contact form, if you find the work I have done with creating my designs for Deaf/deaf people helpful. I have also created more broader communication prompts, which could be useful for other special needs or people with different disabilities. (There is Bubblemail on Redbubble.com but both people need to be logged in to see messages).
One simple principle which community mass masking operates on is tidal breath deflection. The potentially helpful effects of mass masking in the community are about simple breath deflection with an additional aspect of a partial, physical barrier to larger droplets. (Also known as basic hygiene!)
Your tidal breath (when you speak or breath naturally) comes out your mouth at speed, and wearing a barrier mask deflects that breath in a way which means it doesn’t travel so far. Barrier masks/surgical masks don’t do anything more than they have ever done. They are not designed to totally block the transmission of respiratory viruses. They are a matter of simple hygiene and, in the case of a surgical setting, they do act as a partial barrier to droplets when in close proximity. All that blood and splashes of saliva, etc! A basic, physical barrier is a good thing, and when coughs and sneezes are around it’s easy to see how wearing a face covering is common sense in the midst of a global pandemic.
It has been hard for many, with our black and white thinking, (all prone to that!) to think that either face masks “work” or they don’t. But life is never black and white. It is far more nuanced. A partial barrier, or anything which offers some help in a situation, to my mind is well worth it. The problem is maybe that people ascribe more to the wearing of face coverings than actually exists. However, this was a known, and predicted problem.
Unfortunately, I have seen for myself, many times, that the wearing of face masks and face coverings does result in people not keeping an appropriate distance, but if people think they are “protected” by wearing them I guess that’s not surprising. There is so much about Covid_19 that is unknown, and probably always will be, but I think the thing which is, maybe, helpful to bear in mind, is that it appears that the MAIN transmission route for Covid_19 is airborne, therefore it’s really important to keep a DISTANCE and avoid indoor crowded spaces for any lengthy duration of time if practically possible. Virus straight out of an infected persons mouth, via tidal breath, when face to face over a period of time, is the thing to be aware of, more than which particular type of barrier mask is better or worse.
NOTE: I am sharing my own perspectives here. I am not, and do not claim to be an expert of any kind, and the reality is, that with Covid-19 we are in unknown territory. Airborne transmission was frequently thought irrelevant at the outset… that has changed. I have based my approach on my own experiences and general interests. Right from the outset, my thinking was largely coloured by previous (still mysterious!) influenza A examples of research, and the tidal breath matter has been something which I have thought key.
Yet it is also the case that disagreement over virus transmission has ALWAYS been present. With so far encountered viruses, there are conflicting views and results. We may not like conflicting information, views, and grey areas in the midst of a global pandemic, but this is something we need to accept, for our own mental well being.
Follow the Government guidelines for good hygiene and as the research develops things may change. Wearing barrier face coverings and face masks is prudent and considerate in the middle of a global pandemic!
Disability Awareness and Disability Visibility
Due to my own experience of what is often termed “hidden disability” during the most difficult phase of my trauma recovery journey and other disability (ie not being able to walk for more than ten minutes with a stick for just over a year prior to my knee replacement), plus the osteoarthritis which is still often quite a big pain, (though not in my new knee!) an interest in disabilities has emerged in my work. Inclusive art is a key value, and to use my design skills to help others in creative visual ways is very exciting to me. I think taking part in the shape open last year helped too. https://www.shapearts.org.uk/blog/shape-open-2019-artists-announced
My design for a new international symbol of access is probably something which will never get any further than the publication in the Shape Open Catalogue, because there are huge amounts of hoops and legislation to do something like change the International Symbol of Access. There are so many countries and organisations involved. However, what I have been able to do is put my design hat on and come up with lots of options which I hope will act as communication prompts for people in certain situations. Now we are wearing masks more of the time, to put things on a mask to help may be a good option for some people. I have also ensured that many of my inclusive designs are available on other accessories and clothing for those who cannot wear a mask themselves.
I hope you like looking at the design examples I have posted on here. The are all ©Jenny Meehan. To get a better idea of how HUGE my deaf awareness and disabiltiy visibility range is, do take a look at my redbubble jennyjimjams artist profile though! I think I may be well up to around 300 so far!
https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennyjimjams
I use the artist margin I get (when all deductions taken by redbubble for the manufacture, etc) to help buy materials for my fine art practice. I have found over the years that being a fine artist is a challenge to sustain, but I do my best to try and sustain the creative vision and the work I do, basically because I believe wholeheartedly that visual art and all the arts are essential to good quality of life, health, and to an imaginative and vibrant culture.
I do not personally operate on a profit making basis. Any financial benefits received from this project feed straight into my fine art fund and help me buy what I need to continue my focus as a fine artist. Redbubble.com is it’s own business, and one I am a fan of because it means artists like me can spread our artwork far and wide. Not everyone can afford to buy original artworks, but redbubble.com means you can buy affordable prints from great artists, and help support them at the same time as getting something unique and original. I love it!
There are literally thousands of artists and designers on redbubble. I am just one. So if my designs are useful to you, please let me know because it’s always a great encouragement. Thanks!
A good scheme they are doing at this current time is donating one mask to a charity for each one you buy. More info on the redbubble website.
They also run various discounts and promotions if you are registered with them.
Redbubble are an ethically sound company, and get any products they print on demand printed as near to the buyer geographically as possible to reduce their carbon footprint. Different products are sometimes printed in different facilities.
Examples of Deaf Awareness/Disability Awareness Pandemia by Jenny Meehan
Now I’ve posted loads of images as examples, but since doing so I have added more designs, so this is simply a taster!
I’ve created a large collection of different communication prompt/deaf awareness reusable face coverings. Take a look at just one collection here:
https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennyjimjams/shop?artistUserName=jennyjimjams&collections=1511687&iaCode=all-departments&sortOrder=recent
A rather lippy one!

deaf_Deaf_Lipreader_FaceMasks_jenny_meehandeaf_Deaf_Lipreader_Face Masks_jenny_meehan to buy via redbubble print on demand site, inclusive designs and communication prompts for corona virus pandemic ©Jenny Meehan

deaf_Deaf_Lipreader_FaceMasks_jenny_meehandeaf_Deaf_Lipreader_Face Masks_jenny_meehan to buy via redbubble print on demand site, inclusive designs and communication prompts for corona virus pandemic ©Jenny Meehan

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Deaf, deaf, Hard of Hearing, Lipreading Reusable Masks
and Matching Accessories, including Bags, Notebooks, Badges and Clothing!
Here are some more examples. Being a bit lazy and just showing screenshots. Reason being I have spent so much time on this project that I seriously need to get into my studio tent and get on with some visual experiments I am busy with in there…!

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I often do my exercises, which I need to do for my joints each morning and think up ideas for different designs while doing my exercises! Yes, and I am indeed, in my pyjamas, as you would expect jennyjimjams to be!
It’s a shame the redbubble masks have ear loops…I know these are not good for many people. I think problems could be got around by doing what I do with my home made face covering…. a large elastic band and safety pins, works well and then the mask can go around the back of your head. You can adjust the elasticity depending on where you pin the elastic bands (if a fabric face covering.
With the ear loop masks, I think if you had a big elastic band you could knot it round one loop and then use the pin on the other. Or just loop a large elastic band around the ear loops and join it with one safety pin. Easy to remove when you need to wash your face mask. I am really sorry there are no other options, but I don’t actually manufacture the face masks, just create the graphic designs!
https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennyjimjams
To buy the fruits of my Coronavirus Pandemic Creative Project!

deaf_Deaf_Lipreader_FaceMasks_jenny_meehandeaf_Deaf_Lipreader_Face Masks_jenny_meehan to buy via redbubble print on demand site, inclusive designs and communication prompts for corona virus pandemic ©Jenny Meehan

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The link which takes you to view ALL my designs, and not just the Deaf, deaf, Lipreaders, Hard of Hearing Collection of Face Masks, and matching accessories, badges, etc is
https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennyjimjams
To buy the fruits of my Coronavirus Pandemic Creative Project!
The link which takes you to view ALL my designs, and not just the Deaf, deaf, Lipreaders, Hard of Hearing Collection of Face Masks, and matching accessories, badges, etc is here:
https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennyjimjams/explore to view the design artworks, minus images of them applied onto products.
The designs for Deaf, deaf, hard of hearing I have shown you here are some of the most recent ones, but I have designed a vast landscape of options, with many variations, including some with distancing prompts and reminders, some with specific reference to lipreading and others with none, some suggesting that the other person lowers their mask when asked, and others which just ask the other person to lower their mask automatically.
Some include “please” and other such niceties, others are just straight to the point. I have consulted many people on the various issues which are encountered by Deaf, deaf and hard of hearing folk. Not so much on the other reasons why people find communications adversely affected by face masks and face coverings. I am open to being educated, so please do feel free to let me have constructive critical suggestions and feedback. Very welcome.
Face Covering Exemptions by UK Government
Well, these do change, but at the time of writing…
There are exemptions to the new rules for children under 11, those with disabilities or certain health conditions, such as respiratory or cognitive impairments that make it difficult for them to wear a face covering.
There is a card you can print out from the government’s website, to show exception if wished, but stressed people would not be expected to carry proof of an exemption.
It’s worth noting that it’s perfectly reasonable for you to ask someone to remove their mask (at distance of min 1 metre advisable) if this is needed by you to aid communication. People have different comfort levels and emotions can run high as people are subject to various fears, and may have many different reasons to feel they want two people to wear face coverings, even if in a non medical setting for brief interactions, so worth bearing that in mind. If someone is not comfortable, then they could used a visor, a transparent screen, or a face mask with a transparent window.
This is really important:
You can lower or remove a face mask or face covering:
if speaking with people who rely on lip reading, facial expressions and clear sound. Some may ask you, either verbally or in writing, to remove a covering to help with communication
It’s really important for people to keep their distance! Rather than whip your face mask or face covering down, ask first if the person wants that!
This also really important:
“In settings where face coverings are required in England, there are some circumstances, for health, age or equality reasons, where people are not expected to wear face coverings. Please be mindful and respectful of such circumstances, noting that some people are less able to wear face coverings, and that the reasons for this may not be visible to others.”
see more here:
I have designed many other designs, hopefully suited to different needs, preferences and situations. I hope they help!
The link which takes you to view ALL my designs, and not just the Deaf, deaf, Lipreaders, Hard of Hearing Collection of Face Masks, and matching accessories, badges, etc is here:
https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennyjimjams/explore
If you have purchased any of my designs from redbubble.com, do please let me know, and if you have a photo of yourself and your purchase, send it my way if you are OK with it being published on the internet in this blog. I don’t know the identity of who purchases products with my art and design on via Redbubble, so it’s always nice to know who is enjoying my work!
https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennyjimjams
To buy the fruits of my Coronavirus Pandemic Creative Project!

sunflower by Jenny Meehan ©Jenny Meehan
Let’s be KIND… Really kind, to ourselves and others too!
https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennyjimjams
To buy the fruits of my Coronavirus Pandemic Creative Project!
Great Christmas Gifts! You could make up your own Christmas Hamper for someone, with a few items from my redbubble shopfront on redbubble, and some food and drink maybe! Masks2Match some snazzy socks, a stylish fashionable reusable mask and maybe a notebook…So they can write all about it!