Ornamental Carousel Painting

FOR MORE INFORMATION... www.instagram.com/jennifer_gabbay_artist http://www.jennifergabbay.com email margotback12@gmail.com Born in Sydney, Australia. Resided in New York City 18 years. Artist Statement ~ As a Blue Mountains artist, my artistic practice combines observations from travel and personal experiences of everyday surrounding beauty. The reinvention of subjects through the development of my own painting language is the essence of the works. My painting style is to disintegrate shapes and colours into fragments, a process of applying paint meticulously like pieces in a puzzle, thereby allowing images to develop like broken worlds pieced together for diffusion and distortion, movement and rhythm. The paintings’ themes can be figurative but are mostly of the floral and landscape world via energy and vibration. I have been a three-time finalist in the Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Award for women artists and a selected finalist + invited artist in many other exhibitions. Works are painted in oil on board, a support that lends itself very well to my work through the blending of colour saturation; this breeds lushness. The working process, an immersion of self, directs me to meticulously apply fine brushstrokes. Gradually the work comes into focus from genesis to intense layering of colour and mark-making. I generally work in series. The freedom to make contemporary art allows me to combine thoughts and materials, thereby responding subjectively and spiritually from concept to execution. All works are painted on board (unless otherwise specified). Boards are professionally constructed and have a solid frame on all four sides i.e. cradled - then the timber board top is attached. Timber is then sealed and gessoed (just like a canvas is treated) followed by several undercoats sanded between these coats before the painting has been commenced. All works are painted in an acrylic layer followed by an oil paint layer then finally finished with a coat of varnish.