Touchstone oil painter Jeanne Garant paints abstractly.  For a painter like Jeanne, abstract means to focus on a particular shape and color noticed at any given moment and then to discard the rest.  She draws from the jumble of life rather than trying to capture it all in a photographic or three-dimensional way.  Garant's attitude in creating the flat or one-perspective paintings, 275 Stripes, mirrors that of New England painter Milton Avery. “I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.”