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- Jael
- P.O. Box 11178
- Fairfield, NJ 07006
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- (201) 812-9265
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- Within our imaginings, lie the greatest truths... and the artistic visionary creations of award-winning artist
- Jael are grounded in the cumulative experience of dreams made real.
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- It's a story-book background that began with Jael's musically professional mother sharing unique and
- imaginative experiences with her when she was small. These, alomg with other wonderful and magical
- adventures, continued to influence her throughout her growing-up years, and into adulthood. She used
- these gifts of imagination to enhance her adult roles of mother and teacher while continually expanding
- personal vistas with her creative and visionary art.
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- Jael was a professionally successful fine artist for twelve years when she made the decision to return to
- college and complete her BFA and obtain a secondary (teaching) certification. She graduated in 1970,
- summa cum laude from the University of Utah. She proceeded to teach art, drama, music, and English in
- Utah high schools, while still maintaining a successful career with her own artwork.
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- A move to Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1974 gave Jael the chance to establish her art studio within a major
- hotel. She exhibited and sold her work, and was pleased to accept an invitation to teach at the innovative
- Clark College.
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- In 1980, in order to work more closely with West Coast galleries and publishers, she moved to beautiful
- Santa Cruz, California. It was this decision that, in time, brought the opportunity to create illustrative art.
- To achieve the success of another childhood dream and to be closer to major book publishers, she made a
- move to the East Coast.
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- Now, for the past 10 years or so, Jael has worked with many of the top publishers in New York and across
- the country, completing over 100 cover illustrations. These range in subject matter from science fiction,
- fantasy, and horror to mainstream -- historical and editorial, fiction and nonfiction. Frequent
- commissions from both private collectors and the business sector have given her the chance to create
- unique, original works of art, which combine her personal perspective with that of the subject.
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- To expand her professional contacts and meet enthusiasts of her art, she attends as many science fiction
- conventions as time and deadlines permit, and has been fortunate in continually receiving top awards and
- recognition for her work. She has also been Artist Guest of Honor at several conventions, including
- Arisia (Boston) and Tropicon (Florida). She is a member of the Association of Science Fiction and
- Fantasy Artists (ASFA).
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- A few of the highlights during the past several years were:
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- * a commission to paint the portraits of retiring and deceased California supreme court justices
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- * an invitation to hang artwork in both the first and second Invitational Exhibit of the National Academy
- of Fantastic Art at the Delaware Art Museum
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- * being the featured artist at the first New Jersey Fantastic Art Exhibit at the Hutchins Gallery
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- * developing "How to Draw" books, now marketed nationally through the public school system
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- * being included in the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY ART
- TECHNIQUES (edited by John Grant and Ron Tiner, Quarto Pub., England)
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- * being featured in WORLDS OF WONDER CD-ROM SCREEN SAVER (Second Nature Software)
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- * being included in SPECTRUM III, a book featuring the best in contemporary fantastic art
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- Jael is represented by Worlds of Wonder (Jane Frank, Pres.) of McLean, Virginia. For information of a
- catalog which portrays her work (plus other artists in the science fiction/fantasy field), call (703) 847-
- 4251.
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- On a personal note, Jael is happily married to a very smart, cute, adventurous cop who rides a red Harley,
- and is raising a wonderful teenage son. She is also blessed with twelve absolutely brilliant, adorable,
- creative grandchildren.
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