Searching For Harmony & Essence | 1/15 Painting

"My art should be as malleable as the world we live in. It should not be stagnant. It should possess life and inspire the looker to give and take life from it." -J.Charboneau Born in 1986 Jennifer Charboneau is an energetic U.S. artist with roots from the bustling city of Minneapolis. Since completing a fine arts degree in 2008 she has traveled to 21 different countries and lived in 3. She now resides in Reno, Nevada. Charboneau’s creative process begins from obsessive observation of the diverse cities and landscapes she wanders through. What begins as chaotic pen sketches and captured moments in prose, later become refined instinctual abstractions of form and movement. These ‘Visual Philosophies’ enlighten the eye with bold chaotic brushstrokes while an intentional vagueness of form and space allows the subjective experience to be relative to all. Some muses that influence Charboneau’s artwork across all borders are: impressionism. expressionism. street art. nature. philosophy. jazz. haiku & prose poetry. and people watching social anthropology. She is a visual philosopher who is out to absorb all that this life has to show… then spit it out onto canvas and paper as chaotically and yet beautifully as it was first observed. My current style of painting explores the use of many different materials and many layers to build up chaotic yet constructed relationships within the painting beyond just the image itself. By building and destroying the image I attempt to leave enough suggestion to the viewer as to the subject matter... yet also enough ambiguity that the viewer may relate their own personal visual details to the work. My newest collection of works explore the landscape and cityscape in abstracted ink and charcoal paintings which are built up with layers of gestural reworking. The inspiration for the works comes from a small field study sketch book I carry around along with a small journal of poems and haikus.