" Everybody is a Genius" (2022) Printmaking by Mi-Jeanne Blansjaar

Mi-Jeanne Blansjaar (1967) studied psychology, followed a part-time course Autonomous (sculpture and painting) at the HKU in Utrecht for a year, but eventually opted for the profession of television program maker (director/editor).

She couldn't let go of being physically creative. painting, sculpture (ceramics), goldsmithing, etc., but in the evenings.

In 2012 she started a creative coaching course and completed it in 2016.

Since 2020 she has happily devoted herself to screen printing.

“ Screen printing is a creative process in which I like to leave things to chance. You can make exactly the same prints with screen printing. I never make exactly the same images. I print unique backgrounds from multiple layers of ink. This creates a deepened fresco-like background, very often I find that background beautiful in itself. I then print an image on the background. I photograph these myself or I use old antique photos. I make different prints of such a photo, but always on a different background, so there is never a second of my screen prints that is almost the same'.

Mi-Jeanne reuses in screen printing her paper (to prevent waste) so the back of a work can simply have a rejected other work on it.

• Nationality: NETHERLANDS
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Dutch Artists