Boquet de Fluers Painting

Gallery Represented in USA and Canada Internationally Exhibited Award Winning Professional Fulltime Artist Jeanette Jarville BFA, is a painter and sculptor from Vancouver BC. Canada. She has a distinctive style drawn from a strong background in figure drawing and classical painting. Her paintings beautifully combine spontaneous, fluid marks with structured form and composition. Her work is recognized for its unique and imaginative bold gestures, sophisticated colour and dynamic composition. Jeanette was labeled ‘the class artist’ since Kindergarten, she began oil painting at the age of 11 with one year of private instruction. She received a District Art Scholarship, an Arts Council Scholarship and Honours graduating High School. Jeanette was accepted into the renowned Emily Carr University of Art & Design in 1992. She was awarded four more scholarships for the work she was producing there, receiving her Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Art in 1996. She also studied sculpting and classical painting at The Weissensee Fine Art Academy in Berlin, Germany. Since graduating from art school in 1996 she has had a successful artistic career. Creating vibrant landscape and figure paintings for the 20 galleries that sold her work. In 2016 a move to a larger studio and more solitude lifestyle made her concentrate on work that was deeper and more personal. Her work became looser, more intimate, expressive and large scale. She works in oil, acrylic and mixed media painting, and sculpture in all media. To date Jeanette has been awarded 9 public art commissions, designed and created a theme park, and in 2011 received The Mayor’s Art Award for Artistic Innovation, in 2014 she received Signature Status with the Federation of Canadian Artists and an Award of Excellence. 2018 she was awarded 3rd place in the Masters Division of The Plein Air Grand Prix of Art competition in BC, and also received The People’s Choice Award. Jeanette was a finalist in BC’s Images & Objects show, and received the People’s Choice Award at the Surrey Art Gallery. Jeanette has over 1200 works placed in private and corporate collections throughout Canada, USA, Asia, Australia, S.Africa and much of Western Europe. In public collections of: The UBC/VGH art collection, BC Lions Society, and Richmond Hospital Foundation to name a few.