broken morning- mixed media
I did this awhile ago but I still like it.
It’s the view from my room at dawn in the winter.
Some kind words about my writing:-
Jenny Panda’s writings warm your soul, make you feel good, and put a smile in your heart and on your face. Both, children and adults, love her poems and stories and marvel at her illustrations in her books, and at her visual art work in various media.
Barbara Ariss-Stroh-Wasser,
Educator, Writer, Designer and Visual Artist.
Jenny Panda’s art is the sort that makes you stop to take a deeper look. It grabs the eye and then steals into your soul, where it evokes a warmth and light that comes with affinity and recognition and connection. Her poetry ranges from light, fun lyrical expressions that bounce forth from a highly active, wonderfully open mind that lives in the moment, yet across the spectrum there are the more serious interpretations of a kind heart and a highly perspective intellect reflecting on a richly lived lifetime of experience.
Cheryl Antao-Xavier
Writer, Editor, Publisher
JENNY PANDA’S LOVE FOR THE ARTS IS UNIQUE,NOT ONLY IS SHE A GREAT WRITER AND AN ARTIST HERSELF,SHE INSPIRES OTHERS TO DEVELOP THEIR ARTISTIC TALENTS. I ENJOY READING HER POETRY ,AND WHEN I READ HER CHILDREN’S STORIES TO MY GRAND CHILDREN ,THEY GET ABSOLUTELY ENTHRALLED ALONG WITH THEIR GRANDMA.SHE HAS AN ENCHANTING IMAGINATION AND IS VERY CREATIVE.I LOOK FORWARD TO READING ANY WORDS THAT COME OUT OF HER PEN.JENNY PANDA IS AN ASSET TO THE COMMUNITY AND THE PUBLIC AT LARGE AND WE ALWAYS AWAIT ANXIOUSLY FOR HER NEW BOOKS TO COME OFF THE PRESS.
Dr.Saroj Ram, retired physician and writer
Widzer’s Visit-my new book!
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–ARTIST:
-painting mainly in acrylics and mixed media but also use pencil; ink; pastel; water colour; oils; fabric and paper collage; dolls and puppets.
-have concentrated a great deal on portraits and life drawing of people and animals.
-studied:
· fine art and puppetry at Westhill College in Birmingham, UK
· life drawing and portraits at Sheridan College in Oakville
· life drawing and fine art at OCAD, Toronto
· printmaking at Wilfred Laurier University , Waterloo
–AUTHOR:
Tales of Glissen -writer and Illustrator
-not just a fairy story about an Ice Witch
and her friends-
but is about finding friends and building character.
Includes great tried and tested creative ideas
(for crafts and writing)
NEW!!!!Widzer’s Visit (children’s novel)
-also about finding friends
and how discovering something useful to do
improves life, attitude and behaviour.
In this story, Widzer,
who we met in the first novel,
travels back to his family home
to find that it has disappeared.
Includes great tried and tested
creative ideas as well as ways to improve memory!
On the Road to Bethlehem
(about a lost girl’s experiences
at the annual Christmas pageant
at the Farm Museum in Milton
–Wrote and illustrated book
of own poetry: WHIMSY (WHIMSY)
-Editor of the FASM Cookbook
and Express the Arts (poetry) at the Milton Café
–TEACHER:
Retired Primary School Teacher (English trained)
(34 years including 16 years
at Martin Street PS in Milton)
-Teacher- Art at Martindale Gardens Seniors’ Residence:-
weekly ‘Art with Jenny’,
with a small group of children
along with senior residents who paint and draw.
-Executive member of FASM (Publicity)
-Administrator of
Fine Arts Society of Milton website: www.fasm.ca
-Jenny’s website: jenny.thepandas.ca
EXPRESS THE ARTS
http://expressthearts.com/artist.php
This is the link to our old web page for Express the Arts.
We previously met in Espress Yourself Cafe and after about 4 years we met in Milton Cafe. Both these places are now closed. For awhile we met in Martindale Gardens which is a Seniors’ Residence on Martin Street in Milton and then in the Milton Seniors’ Activity Centre.
We have closed the group for now but possibly may start up again if there is enough demand.
The poetry group ran from April 2002 under the leadership of Elizabeth Kiddle, then for a short while under the auspices of the Canadian Federation of Poets. This became an independent arts group called Express the Arts under the leadership of Jenny Panda. It closed in November 2009.
WHIMSY
For this cover I used a watercolour monoprint of daisies that I did awhile ago.
My favourite poem in the little book WHIMSY is:
A TALL YET MELANCHOLY TALE
‘Twas in a little cafe on the main street of our town,
That our poetry group met every month
Dissolving every frown.
One evening, we gathered there.
Friends and newcomers to find
In a far dark corner sat a man
With melancholy mind.
He’d come to tell his story.
A mournful tearful tale
Of how his love was taken and eaten by a whale.
She’d gold hair streaked with silver,
Her lips, lush rosy hue,
Her eyes were soft and gentle,
Her faults were far, and few.
They were on the ferry over from Halifax, across
The waters of the Maritimes.
Twas there the boat did toss.
They stood upon the surging deck better to feel the spray
The air was fresh, the view was clear.
It was a sunny day.
Suddenly, from down below, emerged a hulking whale.
The boat was caught upon its back and buffeted by its tail.
The whirling boat spun wildly and tossed the crowd around.
His lovely girl laughed with them.
She stretched out to hold his hand.
Reaching desperately to catch her,
They touched their fingertips.
Then over the rail was thrown his girl as the ferry rolled and dipped.
Her name he called out vainly, but never more did see.
Her perfect face, her eyes, her grace.
Her soul soared and was free.
She must have then been swallowed up
By that monster of the sea.
The man explained with face of stone, as we listened tearfully.
“She probably was merely drowned. “
One kind old lady said.
“I don’t think whales eat people.
But I’m sure the poor girl’s dead.”
“You‘ve cheered me up!”
The man replied and a crooked smile he gave
Then he turned around
And saying “Farewell”,
He left with a poignant wave.
ROSES
Black and White drawing of ROSES