Jennifer Croom

An Australian artist living in Melbourne, Australia. Addicted to painting.

Admire Klimt, Kandinski, Henryk Sydlowski and Margaret Woodward for their colour and waywardness with visual truth. Because there is much more than that.
My portfolio here will show paintings in different styles. After years of painting as I'd 'learned', I just had to experiment more, to try and find a way that was mine. I'm loving the journey.
From the excitement I found in expressive painting, blocky abstracts, realism with a surreal edge to .... must everything have a label? There is so much to paint, so many ideas, and so much joy and frustration and excitement in the doing that I feel beyond putting labels on the results.

Lessons in Tonal Realism with Lance McNeill for two years, classes in portraiture with Barbara August for two years.
Multiple workshops.
Trial and error and its consequences.

A few months ago held my third exhibition at the Ryazanoff Gallery in gorgeously trendy Albert Park, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne.
Currently have a large portrait in the selected Southern Buoy Studios Portrait Prize exhibition. It's hanging among the other finalists so I'm happy.
Because of current pandemic lockdown conditions around the country, all openings and exhibitions have been put on hold for the moment.
a difficult time for us all.
To anybody reading this, hope you stay safe, stay well.
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