So, I suppose I’ve sort of been in hiding for, well, nearly a year. What on earth have I been up to, stranded in the middle of the desert, wandering aimlessly in New Mexico? Well, I’ve made some things, I’ve tried some things, and despised them…enough that I haven’t shared them. But I figure it’s time. Now that I’m able to circle around and look at these from afar, I can see that there is something in here, like a jumping off point. I’m working on a large scale installation now. I’m covering an entire room and all of it’s furnishings in white fabric, strip by strip. My heart is starting to feel all swelled up again. I’m getting somewhere with it. I just needed to fail first.
Installation photographs, coming soon. For now, a few struggles. Maybe there is something here for someone out there.
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Uncover your voice, immerse yourself in rich creativity, and find courage, surrounded by a magical, spiritual place. This is a place of strength and community, respite and enrichment. Join us for an intense and invigorating workshop experience that promises to refresh, enliven, and challenge you, and inspire you with incredibly beautiful and personal photographic, styling, crafting, and printing techniques.
Find warmth and serenity at Motherwell Ranch, a private breathtaking mountain paradise. Enjoy luxury accommodations, a personal chef, open bar, fishing, horseback riding, hiking trails, and exquisite mountain views. This is a place to re-center, refresh, and create.
Become inspired by four unique sessions featuring stunning models photographed amongst breathtaking landscape. Explore Jenn’s unusual photographic methods and artistic processes, as she guides you through each session, asking and answering questions, and creating images interactively. Learn some of Jenn’s artistic processes in posing, lighting, styling, costuming, set design, and fine photographic technique. Learn to create a portable outdoor studio, a hauntingly beautiful set with a shallow tank of water, and digital tintypes as we costume and photograph models amongst horses, wild elk, and inspiring natural surroundings. Monday, learn interactively as Jenn shares her digital finishing and styling methods for antiquing her images and preparing them for printing.
Come relax, refocus, and energize your love for this incredible craft in this intimate, personal, and resonant climate. We are excited for a wonderful new group of photographic artists and thinkers, and truly look forward this great adventure together.
Cost for the workshop is $1500 and is all-inclusive. Tuition, luxury accommodations for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evening, all meals and cocktails for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday morning, ranch activities including horseback riding, and transportation to and from the airport are included. Tuition is collected at the time of reservation, and is non-refundable. If you are unable to fulfill your reservation and we are able to fill it with someone on our waiting list, we are happy to reimburse you.
Motherwell Ranch is located just outside of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Guests may fly into either Denver International airport, or Yampa Valley Regional Airport. A shuttle will be provided from Denver International on Friday evening prior to the workshop, and to Denver International on Monday afternoon at the close of the workshop. Yampa Valley Regional Airport is minutes from the gate of Motherwell Ranch.
Space is limited to 15 students, and is filled on a first come, first serve basis.
Please email us to make your reservation at olivegirl@me.com
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Hello Friends,
Well, it’s been an awfully long while. I have been a shamefully un-attentive blogger. My new-year’s resolution is for a life less frantic, though, and so far, so good. I’m re-ordering life a bit, catching my breath, and putting things back in place that have fallen by the wayside a bit. So I’m writing here, I have missed it a lot. I’ve missed sharing images and thoughts and experiences and things. So I thought I’d start by catching up and sharing some things that were left behind, and we’ll kind of go from there.
Here are some images from this summer’s workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico that I captured of our stunning, stunning models. Thank you again to the class who made the journey out to Santa Fe for this workshop…even braved a monsoon with us. It is a joy…or a mystery sometimes to turn back and look at images photographed a while ago and stand in the shoes of the old self that made them. These are a special lot I think. What an incredible group of women I had the opportunity to photograph.
Stay tuned if you will, I will be writing soon about a women’s portraiture weekend with a few slots for portraits, if you’re interested in having your photograph made as an individual, or with a friend, mother, or daughter. There may be a workshop in the mix too…that over-committing thing is a problem for me…so I’m working all that out. Thank you for all of your interest in them! I’m ironing out the summer schedule.
Happy Happy New Year, everyone! Tons of Blessings to you all!
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Hello Friends,
It has been a long while since I’ve written, it has been a rather busy summer. Josh and I were married on July first, and what an incredible day that was. Don’t worry, a wedding blog post is on it’s way, we are compiling photographs to make the perfect collection. Besides getting married, we have been on the road quite a lot too, and have been teaching and lecturing our little hearts out all over the country. Still, some of the most treasured and sacred time we have teaching and sharing is during our small workshops we host each year. We look forward to them with such energy and spirit, and we are always a bit sad when they are over.
Our Wayside Inn workshop just a couple of weeks ago was no different, what a special group of people, and an absolutely beautiful weekend. The Wayside Inn is the country’s oldest operating inn, and is a dreamy place to spend a few summery days, brimming with history, ghost stories, foggy mornings, candlelit evenings, flowery gardens and wonderful wistful nature all around. We all met each other in a cozy room upstairs, had a fanciful morning of conversation and contemplation, took a few deep breaths, and set in for a relaxing few days. After a lovely lunch together we gathered vines and flowers and adorned our models and set for our first session. We costumed, adorned, and photographed beautiful women all afternoon, in a shallow pool of water, on a soaked linen background, and later in romantic chantilly lace dresses fashioned from pieces of fabric, ribbon, and a few pins. We had a wonderful day on the lawn, making new friends, bathing in the sun, and making beautiful images. Later in the evening we shared a family style dinner around a charming old New England table, chatting, laughing, truly relaxing and sinking into the loveliness of the day. After dinner we all coated paper by safelight in our PJ’s for Van Dyke printing the following afternoon. There is just something magical about that safelight, there is nothing quite like it. We all made safelight friends, and then off to bed. Some of us slept better than others…some of us had the room next door to the ghost.
The next morning began with a special studio session with one of my favorite people, the beautiful and mysterious Bonnie Hutchison, adorned in a handmade floral wreath and my oldest, most beautiful vintage gown. We then had an absolutely splendid afternoon in the tent for art class, where we played with dye transfers, altered inks, acrylic transfers and collage, and best of all, encaustic collage. We made an incredible mess and felt like children, everyone was free to experiment, play, and create. It was a glorious afternoon, and an equally lovely evening, as we photographed two beautiful women in white gauzy gowns at dusk in the woods and fields and windy nature paths across the way. We all gathered inside again for another cozy meal together after our beautiful day, and then gathered again together upstairs where we talked and laughed until we cried for hours.
We are so grateful for our new found kindred spirits, for all of your inspiring stories, your encouragement, and the inspiration you have given us. We hope were able to find as much in us as we did in you.
Enjoy this selection of images from the workshop I captured of our incredible models. Thank you again to everyone for such a memorable and heartfelt weekend.
Signing off for now, I’ll be writing about our Santa Fe workshop very soon!
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Ahhhhh, home again after a magical week. What a life we have, full of travels and adventures, never a moment dull or still, and best of all, mapped by the friends kindred spirits we make along the way. We discovered a very special, incredibly thoughtful group this time around in Texas. We certainly had a few good laughs, a few good tears, some great conversations about life and art, some perfect times of quiet, and plenty of big, holy messes. We made some beautiful figure studies, fashion photographs, some great collage art, encaustic art, dye transfers, and even converted the classroom into a darkroom to make Van Dyke Prints. We talked a lot, journaled a lot, and thought a lot. Tons of new ideas were born this week, and new energy was ignited. We are blessed to be part of this gorgeous progress…to witness these things is about is good as it gets.
Below are some favorite images of the models I created during the week. Enjoy them, and check often, as we have lots more news coming soon!
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