Mother Joanna Jamieson entered the Glasgow School of Art to study mural painting in 1951 when she was 16. Eventually she was led to the religious life and became a Benedictine nun at Stanbrook abbey. She served there twice in 12 year terms as Abbess, ... »
Mother Joanna Jamieson entered the Glasgow School of Art to study mural painting in 1951 when she was 16. Eventually she was led to the religious life and became a Benedictine nun at Stanbrook abbey. She served there twice in 12 year terms as Abbess, retiring in 2007. She then took a one-year refresher course at the Royal Drawing School in London, where she studied, well into her 70s.
Between 2010 and 2014 she worked on a commission to create a substantial mural, 26 feet by 18 feet in the Grange Restaurant at Buckfast Abbey. The mural depicts the monks building the abbey.
In 2017, age 82, she completed another mural for the Kairos Centre in London depicting Mother Magdalen (Frances) Taylor, who founded the Poor Servants of the Mother of God.
Both murals show her interest in a technique pioneered by Lyonel Feininger, the 20th century German-American expressionist who used overlapping triangular planes of light to convey depth, space and movement.
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