In addition to her creative spirit, she has a great sense of educating young artists and interacting with the residents of the Mesdag clinic in Groningen, where she has been working as a creative therapist since 1982.
Born in 1944 in Geulle, the artist is a versatile person. In addition to her creative spirit, she has a great sense of educating young artists and interacting with the residents of the Mesdag clinic in Groningen, where she has been working as a creative therapist since 1982.
Jessy Boelen mainly shows people in her work. bronze plastics as small elongated figures Naked and vulnerable. work full of atmosphere, emotion and tension. This atmosphere and loneliness can also be found in her paintings. Her most recent paintings seem to be looking for a different style. The colors get darker. Man disappears in an abstract composition. Paintings and bronzes are very different in technique. But in the atmosphere you find the same satisfaction in both.

Since 2005, the artist has been working half the year on Paros, Cyclades, fascinated by the marble of the island.

She finds her inspiration in ancient cultures and early Cycladic art. Jessy Boelen looks for her stones in old mines, river beds or during her walks. She works with the material where it comes from. Jessy sculpts in the tradition of the ancient Greeks with hammer, point, tooth and flat chisel. The artist works with attention to the details in each stone in order to find and depict her own form. Although virtuoso, her white sculptures such as abstracts, torsos, figures, birds are of great simplicity.