J.E. Crum is an artist who creates art focusing on the exploratory qualities of the mediums of watercolor, acrylic and pastel to create abstractions of the human form, mostly of the face and hands, developing playful juxtapositions of colors and shapes within the artworks using the method of automatism. Crum tends to draw inspiration from mythologies in the narratives that evolve from her experimentations while creating portrait abstractions. Crum enjoys creating variations on the self-portrait, of which J.E. has concentrated on making since first attending college to study Art, inspired by Expressionists such as: Kathe Kollwitz, Oscar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele. J.E. also enjoys working in a fast-paced career as an elementary Visual Arts Educator in state public schools, of which the artist currently teachers nearly 1,000 children a week in a 50-mile radius in a rural locale, from ages four to eleven. Visit www.zhibit.org/jecrum to see more work by J.E. Crum.