To accomplish this, in 1974, at the age of 50, she decided to move to Utah and attend Brigham Young University. In the space of five years, she earned both her BFA and MFA degrees. After graduating, Clarke began teaching drawing and painting at Brigham Young University. Clarke developed her personal style through trial and error, experimenting with Abstraction and Expressionism but finally settling with Realism. Although Jeanne uses Colorfield, Op Art, and Post-Impressionism techniques, she feels her paintings would be meaningless without people.
All moments are special.
The present moment is all that we have and if we treat each moment, each day, as if it is special, then we are living life to the fullest. We pray that our humor holds up, and that time allows us some pleasure and some freedom to express ourselves. A minimalist art, or non-representational art consisting chiefly of geometric shapes and forms, certainly cannot symbolize a woman's experience. 1995.043 Intricate and varied, the motifs in Clarke's paintings reflect her philosophy that life is abundant and complex, filled with hidden meanings waiting to be explored. There's a genetic code which seals patterns into us and there are those patterns we have chosen to invite into our lives.