All images & text © copyrights JEANNE ILLENYE 1990-2018. All rights reserved. |
T i m e . . . the universal measurement of life’s progression . . . age.
N a t u r e . . . a precious gift . . . transient in it’s beauty when subjected to time.
— ILLENYE |
Artist Statement It is the common things that are most often taken for granted -- the fruit and flowers of our daily sustenance -- nourishment for body and soul, respectively. These are delicate and fleeting gifts. Through my work, I elicit a greater appreciation for their beauty by elevating them to the forefront of the observer’s attention. While my paintings isolate a particular moment in time, it is through the details -- a browning, torn leaf, the curling of a dried petal, a broken stem, bruised fruit, dewdrops -- that I evoke a sense of transience in Nature’s beauty. I take the observer through many phases of growth from bud to blossom, ripening fruit to withering vine -- life and death and ultimately, rebirth of spirit, for within this beauty we find comfort and peace. |
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