Page 5 - OSG: Jeanne Maze: 2024

Jeanne uses the astonishing collection of pastels inherited from her
grandfather who died in 1979. She had received these precious pastels
neatly packed according to shades of colours in wooden trays, which
stayed unopened until 2018. When Jeanne started working with this
new medium, she concentrated on varied subjects such as still lives,
flowers, landscapes, as well as trees and animals.
She has worked mostly on the vineyard theme over the past
two years, but she told me that she intends to move on and has
already started working on a series of abstract pastels. Of the use of
pastels she says “Pastel colours encourage me to be bold and push
me to achieve effects which I would probably not have done earlier in
my career.”
In order to complete her collection of chalks Jeanne rekindled
an old tradition of her grandfather’s which was a yearly visit to the
Parisian niche boutique “La Maison du Pastel” — originally “Maison
Henri Roché” started in 1720, the oldest manufacturer of pastels in