Jenny Eggleston is a Raleigh, NC – based artist, poet, and art teacher. Classically trained as a nature illustrator, she now uses images found in nature to create beautiful surrealistic figurative mindscapes that are emotive, sensual, and at times provocative. Eggleston interweaves art with poetry, moving smoothly from one creative expression to another to help the viewer both see and feel her intent.
Surrealists such as Eggleston, tap into their subconscious minds, which they believe to be the source of all imagination and creativity. Concerned with the rapid recording of their unconscious and freely associated thoughts, the putting of pencil, pen, and crayon to paper is incredibly appealing and produces a prodigious output of drawings.
“I try not to plan a drawing, only to respond to a basic mood, to explore. I quiet my mind and let the pencil rest and watch what starts to emerge”
~ Jenny Eggleston
Upcoming Exhibitions
- ArtSpace Collectors Gala, Raleigh, NC 2011
- DeBerry Gallery for Botanical Art & Illustration, UNC Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC 2012
Recent Juried Exhibitions
- Oxidation, Halle Cultural Arts Center, Apex, NC 2011
- White Exhibition, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC 2011,Honorable Mention
- Carbon Load, Solo Exhibition, Artspace Upfront Gallery, Raleigh, NC 2011
- Earthly Musings, 3 person exhibition, Block Gallery, Raleigh, NC 2011
- For the Love of Art 2011,
- VAE Exhibition, Auction and Gala, Raleigh NC, Merit Award
- Art on Paper 2010, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC
- N.E.W. Never Exhibited Work, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC 2010, Merit Award
- The Party, Coordinated Exhibit, United Arts Council, Raleigh, NC 2010
- Upfront Exhibition, Artspace , Raleigh, NC 2010
- Tulips, Solo Exhibition, Artspace Lobby Gallery, Raleigh, NC 2010
- The Nature of Being, Gallery Nomads, Flanders Gallery at Green Hill Center, Greensboro NC, 2009
- New Works Exhibition, Artspace 2010
- Exchange Gallery Exhibition, 2 person show, VAE, Raleigh NC, 2009
- Eve’s Threads, ArtSPARK POD Installation, SPARKcon, Raleigh NC, 2009
- Figuratively Speaking, Solo Exhibition M. Street Gallery, Raleigh NC, 2009
- Gallery Artists Exhibition, M. Street Gallery, Raleigh NC, 2008
- Unfettered Visual Artists Exchange Raleigh NC, 2008
- Love In the Air, Halle Cultural Art Center, Apex, NC 2008
- N.E.W. Never Exhibited Work, VAE, Raleigh, NC, 2008
- Spark Con’08 Open Exhibition, Vintage 21 Gallery, Raleigh, NC 2008
- Raleigh Wolf Ramble, Citywide art exhibit and fundraiser, Raleigh, NC 2005, “Prettiest Wolf” Award”
- American Drawing Biennial II, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg VA