Jean Cherouny is inspired by 20th century painters Jackson Pollock, Rebecca Purdum and Mark Rothko. The Abstract Expressionists were also called “action painters''. Knowing how Pollock energetically threw and dripped, how Purdum paints with hands and figures, taking work far beyond the capabilities of traditional brushwork, reveals the connection to Cherouny’s 21st-century work.

Jean paints with her rollerblades to create original, layered, texture paintings with spiraling layered lines in a style she calls Active Expressionism. Jean uses her menagerie of wheeled tools while in a dance with her eye, mind and body. Informed by a series of phases connecting her to nature through texture, line, color and form, Jean moves across the canvas creating a unique color field experience. She models her actions to follow the motion of her body with her rollerblades. Her wheels are the vehicle to finding a connection to the forces of movement.