Jennifer Domal

Artist Statement

Contemporary and traditional Batik Art eggs (pysanky) are written using regionally sourced beeswax and blown eggshells. Each talisman remains the magical object written to defeat darkness and invite goodness.

Her varied career began with a degree from West Chester University in Music Education—Percussion, graduating cum laude with Honors. After years of encouragement from fellow artists to pursue her talent in writing pysanky, she returned to West Chester University for her BFA in Studio Arts with a concentration in Sculpture and Crafts. She has taught at the Chester County Art Association, the Center for the Creative Arts, and holds workshops for various organizations.

Jennifer's Lithuanian-Polish heritage is a large part of her craft. While she faces an unusual challenge for a pysanky artist; she is highly allergic to eggs, and must take great precaution when blowing and preparing fresh eggs. Learning the traditional folk art, designs, and customs around the family kitchen table has evolved into her exquisitely detailed batik egg art and folk pysanky.

Domal has exhibited her art in museums and galleries throughout Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Her artwork is sought by international private collectors, including in Japan, Australia, France, Belgium, England, the Netherlands, and Italy. Pieces are curated in collections at Penn State Great Valley, Blue Ball Barn as part of the Delaware Folk Art Collection, and others.

Jennifer currently lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where she sources most of her components locally. She teaches drawing, sculpture, and pysanky writing, and delights in combining science with art. She is inspired by her menagerie of dogs, cats, a pond full of fish, and her husband, not necessarily in that order.