Jean McEwan
@jeanmmcewanartist
UK-based visual + participatory artist. Collage zines + creative research with @thebinkshub @changingrealities + others. Care, justice, interconnection. Human & more than human worlds Online shop for zines + prints
'We are kin' Collage with pigeon #pigeon #animallives #morethanhuman #message #kin #interbeing
'For a just society to be possible, it's essential that people first train their hearts and minds' Collaged journal page of quote from US Buddhist monk Thanissaro Bikkhu So feeling the truth of this - doing the inner work alongside taking action in the world #thanissarobikkhu #buddhism #justice
'you belong' a reminder #collage #zine #message #reminder #youbelong #weallbelong
'may all beings be safe and protected' Geli print with collaged text on paper bag I made this about the cows who live in the fields near me. Such beautiful playful beings. I watch them every day and learn so much from them. I dearly wish they had better lives #compassion #animalwelfare #metta
'How might I, even in this dreadful moment, continue to serve?' Collage journaling in a found book, trying to process everything that's going on right now. Finding refuge in these words from George Saunders from his novel 'Vigil' #collage #journaling #georgesaunders
'I need to hear the old voices under the seabed' I adore this stunning collection of poems & sound recordings from Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, from a residency in Nova Scotia Published with care + attention by @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Available here longbarrowpress.com/2025/06/23/t...
"I am happy because you are here" To celebrate #CowAppreciationDay, I'm giving away free postcards of this mixed media artwork 🐄 Send me a DM with your address if you'd like one (or more – happy to send a few if you'll share the love). #AnimalLives #Cows #MoreThanHuman #AnimalArt #ArtGiveaway
'There is also joy: (with your eyes, let us see)' A collage mapzine exploring ancestral burdens, joys & potentials, contemplating human, animal & land ancestors. A4 fold-out zine: physical copies available — DM to request a free copy Digital flipbook version: heyzine.com/flip-book/3d...
'land friends i am listening..' A collaged found poem on a cyanotyped (sun printed) tree drawing - journal page inspired by reading Maggie O'Farrell's 'Land' which I started yesterday and cannot put down. #journaling #foundpoem #collage #land #maggieofarrell
Delighted my zine 'We Got Your Back' is in 'Looking for green, pink, yellow and blue' – exhibition of artist books, poetry & ephemera observing nature at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol More at www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/lookingfor20... Thanks @sarahbodman.bsky.social for including me! #zines
'Ready Aye Ready' A collage erasure journal page made in a found book from a charity shop (Carol Shield's novel 'Unless'). I found the words by chance as I was deleting the words with gold ink. They surprised me, so I let them speak A bird added because. #journaling #collage #birds
'Once we transform the suffering in ourselves, we'll be able to help transform the suffering in the world' Revisiting this wisdom from Thich Nhat Hanh, made into collaged journaling pages a while back Really feeling the truth of these words at this time💚 #thichnhathanh #artjournaling #collage
'This must be the place' Creative doings on felt connection with other animals. A ghostly image of a pigeon (their soft calls always there in my soundscape) & cut outs of deer, who I see in my morning walks. Curlews, rabbits and lapwings too, tho not pictured. Gratitude for their presence 💚
'JOY' Another experimental, messy cyanotype (sun print), my favourite way to work I think. This was made with found letters and a glass candle holder in the middle for the 'o'.
'I am here now beside you' A journal collage from today. I'm using a found book as a journal, this one has illustrations which offers a nice ground to work on top of #artjournaling #collage #encouragements
'growing' an experimental cyanotype (or sun print) I made yesterday, using leaves, prints on cellophane, and a cut out of a bird. hope everyone manages to stay comfortable and take care in today's heat #artjournaling #cyanotype #bird #nature #summer
Today's art messing about included making a found poem from a page of RLS Kidnapped (large print edition) and trying to make cyanotypes with leaf shadows (didn't work but good fun, Bobby dog 'helped'). My junk journal getting nicely unwieldy as I add more papers & stuff to it. #junkjournaling
'Savour everything' New junk journal, started today, to mark a summer creative sabbatical. So lovely, and rare, to play and make stuff without purpose, just for the joy of it.
'I am a connoisseur of the day. Sometimes I sit in tears. Sometimes I sit in a wordless, inexplicable kind of brokenhearted joy' Just finished ' Enon' an extraordinary novel about love and grief by Paul Harding. Would so recommend! #paulharding #enon
I find these quotes very powerful. They speak to my own intentions as an artist, trying to communicate about our interconnectedness with other animals, and to awaken compassion and (wise) action, in myself and others
Preparing materials for our monthly Creative Journaling Club which happens at @bradfordcouncil.bsky.social wonderful Keighley Library. Our (optional theme) this month is 'blooms' All welcome to join us! It's free, and we're a welcoming friendly group. We make and chat together & it's lovely 💚
SWIFTS!! They're back round our way, raucous and swooping up the skies, bringing uncomplicated joy. Here's a cyanotype to celebrate them Hope you get to see them too 💚 #swifts #worthvalley #birds #animals #naturalworld #gratitude
"Love was a room that appeared when you stepped into it" These lines from Martyr, by Kaveh Akbar, a novel about coming to terms with yourself & your past, connection and vulnerability, are living in me today. Grateful to have chanced upon it in @bradfordcouncil.bsky.social Keighley library
'I recognise myself in you' Collage from ‘Learning To Listen: A different kind of love story’, a zine of visual meditations exploring our connections with other animal beings. Available to buy jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/product/lear... Proceeds go to Pigs in the Wood animal sanctuary
Ferns unfurling, and the call of a cuckoo on our morning walk this morning. Hope nature brings you some joy today too 💚
I don't know where you end ... and I begin A joyous morning with this dear being #interbeing #humananimalconnection #rescuedog #bobby