Jean Lodge

Jean Lodge was born in 1941 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. After a B.A. in Littérature from Miami University. She studies at the Ruskin School of Fine Art of Oxford University in England from 1965 to 1969, where later on, she will become professor and Director of the Print Department. She works in Oskar Kokoschka studio in Salzbourg, Austria, on color separation without mixing. She deepens her knowledge of engraving at Stanley-William Hayter studio in Paris. Her favorite medium is wood, her favourite topic is metamorphosis. During a scientific mission, she discovers the journey of the American Monarch Butterflies flying four thousand kilometers between Canada and Mexico. Master of woodblock engravers, she belongs to the Selection of the United States for the Art Olympiads organized by Lise Cormery Gallery for the French Olympic Committee in 1991 and 1992 in Paris. She showed a magnificent monumental woodblock on the American immigrants where Europeans with Ellis Island metamorphosis become Americans. The 1992 CNOSF event in Paris was following the famous 1988 Art Olympiads in Seoul with its sculpture and painting museums created for the Olympic event in order to invite and show the art of major international artists of the century.