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Barn Swallows in a Heart Shaped Sky
Small painting of two barn swallows and twin heart weathervane for valentine, wedding, or anniversary gift by Jen Greta Cart
Now Voyager
A classic white New England house becomes a vessel sailing to new lands and new adventures. A woman of grandmotherly age, in a vintage dress, knits as she captains her ship. Her friends, a green parrot and an orange tabby cat are her loyal crew as she sails bravely into the sunset. I feel that…
Lady of Spring
Acrylic 19.5″ x 15.5″ “The Lady of Spring” is about those days in Spring in Maine when life returns. The Maiden Goddess of Spring walks across the land and the snow retreats before her beautiful feet. Her magical footsteps melt the snow and leaves and flowers spring up in her wake. In the snow before…
Phoenix Rising – Mural at The Travis Mills Foundation
As the phoenix lives again after fiery death, so can humans after devastating loss. My husband, artist Chris Cart, and I painted this fantastic and inspiring Phoenix Rising mural for the Travis Mills Foundation that depicts prosthetic steampunk phoenix wings, symbolizing a new beginning for our recalibrated veterans. We wanted to create an image that was heroic, beautiful,…
Ever and Ever
This painting of a red fox pausing in her travels by an abandoned gravestone in Maine is about things that endure. The double hearts and cracks of the granite headstone signify the everlasting love of a couple throughout the adversity of their lives. But there’s also a theme I come back to again and again…the…
Many Stitches Hold Up The Sky
Mural on the Cabot Mills Building A sky of gold, lemon and teal printed fabric makes up a beautiful sunrise as people work together to sew a patchwork quilt world of peace and hope for the future on the old Wampanoag portage site on the Androscoggin River. White patchwork doves flutter on the right, while…
Nuku Hiva – painting
Jen Greta Cart’s painting of a hula dancer in the South Pacific captures the grace and strength of the female dancer’s body. The dancer’s skirt is comprised of the swirling designs of Polynesian tattoo art. The painting is named after the Island of Nuku Hiva, in the Marquesas in the Central South Pacific. Acrylic 12…
Mermaid Memories – Magical Realism Painting
The waters of the Maine coast are full of mermaid magic in my painting about reclaiming wildness and freedom of soul. If you look closely at the two figures you can see that it’s the same woman, and the young mermaid is calling the older woman back to the sea, back to her true self. …
The Wedding Dress – Portrait
This is a small portrait of a new bride’s mother in law putting finishing touches on the wedding gown. The wedding took place on the groom’s family land in Mexico. I formalized most elements of the painting, and played up the contrast between the white gown and the dry wood of the shed. I finished…
Ambivalence
Feminist Fairy Tale Egg Tempera Painting. A young girl contemplates an enchanted frog prince in this examination of the idea that every girl would love to kiss a toad, win a prince, and completely subsume her life in his. Her face is serious, and the toad’s jewel like eye seems to lead into a…
Maiden, Mother, Wisewoman – Watercolor Goddess Painting
Three aspects of the Goddess: Maiden, Mother and Wisewoman (or Crone) read from a Book of Mysteries as they hold hands They sit in a meadow of grasses with ripened seed. For me this painting is religious art, a celebration of the stages of a woman’s life, and also a representation of life continuing through…
In Her Future When She Wakes
Acrylic 18″ x 24″ 2016 A maiden in white floats sleeping in a twilight sky. Above her dreaming and virginal form, moons wax and wane in succession, symbolizing the cycles of her upcoming three or four decades of fertility. Beneath her mysterious objects grow from a mossy landscape. On closer inspection we see that these…
Red Riding Hood and Wolf
Red Riding Hood and her lifelong friend.
Wild Swans
Acrylic 2017 16″ x 20″ Inspired by Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem of the same name. The eponymous swans are thrilling, larger than life, their feathers pure as the clouds, freedom made physical. Meanwhile, down on earth, the landscape seems prettified, pleasantly civilized into a quilt. Two swans, lower in the sky, made of quilt…
“Welcome to My Jungle”
2015 Egg Tempera 18 x 30″ A nude woman of mature years and her companion, a tiger, regard the viewer fearlessly from their jungle home.
Evening Stars
2016 Acrylic This portrait of a lovely mother and daughter was worked from a small photograph of two people I had never met. Because of the mother’s star tattoo, I decided to make stars a quiet theme in the piece. I gave the little girl a silver star ring and invented a background sky of…
Lenten Rose
2015 Egg Tempera This is a portrait of a fifteen year old girl with a theme of rebirth and renewal. The girl is in the early spring of her life, and the lenten roses in the wreath on her head symbolize life coming forth after the winter.
Kate and The Dragon
2015 Watercolor I did this watercolor portrait of my daughter-in-law, Kate, as a present for my son. Although I seldom paint actual fantasy creatures, I felt that the image of a woman calmly reading while cradled by the immense clawed limbs of a dragon suited the duality of Kate’s scholarly yet valiant personality.
Chris Painting
2016 Acrylic Portrait of my husband, Chris Cart, at work at his easel, creating his magic within the magic of a fall day.
Into My Jungle
2015 Egg Tempera 24″ x 35″ A grey haired woman in a Victorian dress complete with draped bustle and walking parasol sets forth on a path into the jungle that stands as a metaphor for her interior life. A white bird of paradise flies ahead of her, and a small winged lizard watches from the…