Hello! My name is Dominique Jordan.
My husband & I live in Jackson, Mississippi, & we currently have three sons in college and one daughter in high-school.
Creating & studying art has been a passion of mine my whole life.
The opportunity to share my artwork with you is such an honor! Thank you!
In recent years my main focus has been watercolor & ink on paper.
Many of these pieces are offered affordably & conveniently as open-edition prints for sale; see the menu tab "Ordering Watercolor Prints."
I also paint in oils on board or stretched canvas, & a sampling of these originals can be viewed in the menu tab "Oil Painting Gallery."
Most recently, I have found great delight in combining my years of calligraphy experience with my love of painting & history to produce pieces with both text & design elements.
My appreciation & admiration for this style began many years ago in a college class of mine at SMU: "History of the Bible in the Renaissance."
I fell in love with the work of Albrecht Durer & also the work of every unnamed monk whose beautiful penmanship & illustrations filled the Bibles made prior to the printing press. We got to visit SMU's rare books collection, hold illuminated Bibles, & even use a real Gutenberg printing press. I was hooked!
The Uncial & Carolingian styles of calligraphy lettering featured in some of the examples below are reminiscent of these texts; drawing inspiration from medieval "Illuminated Manuscripts" which were painstakingly hand-lettered & painted by monks in monasteries who served as scribes.
Reproducing & updating this type of art in my own hand & style is both humbling & rewarding.
My hope is that God will use my artwork to exalt His name as we take time to reflect on the glory of His creation, the talents & the appreciation of beauty that He's given to us as His image-bearers, & most of all His Son - the Word made flesh.
"...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea."
"THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD, AND THE SKY ABOVE PROCLAIMS HIS HANDIWORK."
