About

Jean Peacock is primarily an oil painter. She’s an award-winning artist who has participated in juried solo and invitational group exhibitions throughout the region and Southeastern Virginia. Her paintings are included in private collections internationally. Jean has lectured for The Norfolk Society of the Arts at the Chrysler Museum "Tell Me A Painting" and for the International Torch Club, Portsmouth, Va. Chapter: "ART: DARING To LOOK PAST THE CLICHE" and DADA.

 

An avid FOR KIDS supporter, Jean has donated artwork and helped with their annual auction for many years. Jean was a resident at d’Art Center in Norfolk, Va for over 20 years.

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In 2013, she and Matthew Bernier, a puppeteer and art therapist at Eastern Virginia Medical School collaborated on an exhibit and book called "THE DOOR OF GOOD: A Story of Redemption. 42 oil paintings were created for their joint exhibition and used to illustrate the book. It was voted one of the 10 best exhibitions of the year by The Virginian Pilot.

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In 2012, she and her late husband, painter and Art History professor George Tussing, opened a small gallery, The Old School House Gallery, located in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in the small town of New Market. The gallery was on the first floor of their historic family home which was the first all-girl school in that town in 1873.

Jean is a founding member of Studio 3009 and The Gertrude Group, a weekly gathering of over a dozen local artists. who gather in her home for food, conversation and fun.

“Art, Artifice, Artificial, Exaggeration, these words are the springboards for my art. To transform a world of reality into a world of wonder and magic. To my English fairy tale telling mother, I owe much.”