My name is Jean Milu Truesdale I was born in South Texas where at ripe young age of 7 I started painting. Thanks to my mother who gifted me with my first set of beginners oil paints and. 2 canvas boards. This is how my 60 years painting began. It was my leaving home young to escape the abuse and ridicule I found myself in NM.

I've raced ahead before I credited the teacher who helped me, taught me and inspired me to continue above anything else I would attempt. She had something I did not at the time ,faith in my talent. Her name is K.K Simpson. KK taught the art of painting in the Old Masters style and technique of underpainting. I painted in the style of the Old Masters for 10 yrs wherein I learned how light reflects through layers of glazes to produce wanted effects.

I won my one and only award of my career an Honorable Mention. I did not understand its significance and was crushed as I saw ribbons being award to other artist. Artist more seasoned, developed with years of experience.

This began life long push to improve my technique. My obsession to be good enough fighting my learned self doubt. At a ripe old age of 18 I forced myself to seek out Art. Nothing else mattered, I had to improve, to become the best I could be. Little did I know it would and remains my life's work.

Thanks to Kathy Shepard a Gallerists in Texas I was able to paint with Sergei Bongart and he rocked my world. Sergei painted in a style I later coined the Russian Colorist Movement. His style was loose, bright and filled with color,  I was captive to the emotion of it, the power and yet how soft it can become. Conveying every emotion of my life that at the time I had no words for.

Sergei was directly related to my self education and studies in Europe. He made the off hand comment " surround yourself with great  art or you will accept mediocre". That one statement catapulted me to Paris with a one way ticket and 500$. Stepping foot on Parisian soil I was at peace for the first time in my life, but that is another story all together.

I met 2 female artists standing in line at the Grand Palais for an Impressionist show. Ursula was well known in her youth in Canada the other Donnie Buffalo Dog as a Native American artists. They took me in a few week later when I made my way to their studio home in Provence, later on the farmed me out to Nicola Politi in Milano. I fell in love with Provence as I was fascinated by the Impressionist and their unbridled use of color. I spent the next 15 years painting mainly Provence with excursions into the Umbria and Tuscan countrysides.

I followed the footsteps of Van Gough, visited the Museums of Paris, Milan, Barcelona, Rome, Florence studying their brush strokes and use of color. It was during a visit to the Jeu de Paume that I finally understood Monets use of dry brushing.

In the 90's I flew back to the states as usual and sold what work I had left. I adopted NM as home at this time but I never stopped returning to Provence to paint. In 1999 in search of the next possible market I moved to Vancouver BC. Here is where I learned Berlin was the next hot spot for artists. Over the next 7/8 yrs I painted and explored my voice in abstract painting. Having several shows before returning to the US in 2006, first San Francisco followed by a move to NM. NM is where I reside today painting landscapes.

Currently my paintings are a conversation about climate change. The orbs that appear in my work, are asking the viewers to pause and question will these landscapes vanish in our lifetime?