Biographies > Jean Stoughton

Jean Stoughton says she prefers to paint in watercolour as she likes its free flowing suggestiveness, clear transparency and luminous quality that reflect northern Ontario skies and water. She likes to paint old street scenes and head frames. The Cobalt on the Rocks watercolour is a wonderful example. She says she tries to show the strength and stamina it took to live in the north and yet people there still have the time to relax and see the beauty around them. She concludes, “I hope that my paintings will help the viewer to see and understand the strength, loneliness, humour and happiness we have in this beautiful country of northern Ontario”.

Jean lives in Kirkland Lake where she has a studio. She has taught art privately and also in the schools in the region. She has had ‘Artists-in-the-schools’ residencies and given workshops in Cobalt. She has her Northern Ontario Art Association letters. Her work is exhibited at the Gallerie Grenier, Noranda, Quebec, and she has frequently exhibited with the Kirkland Lake Art Club.

Being an artist in northern Ontario.  I now live in British Columbia, but northern Ontario will always be home to me.  Believe me when I say the people of Northern Ontario are special, their warmth and appreciation of the land, the arts and each other is unique.