untitled (orange) Print

Len Jessome lives and works in Hamilton. In 2001, he left his corporate job to devote himself fully to his passion for painting, to the delight of art lovers. His recent work is in numerous private collections in North America and Europe. The singularity of his drawings gives his work real artistic power and bodes well for a successful international career. Len Jessome's style is dual and illustrates man's ambivalence in his apprehension of the world in which he lives. The human condition interests him with its ambiguities and its morality. His productions are sometimes dark, pessimistic and serious as... sometimes more political and social... an undeniable artistic power emerges, a unique freedom of tone. Jessome delivers messages in his paintings and is not content with contemplation. The grim reaper is clearly lurking but Jessome's heads do not express pain. The artist's style is that of a new kind of expressionism but is not confused with symbolism because the balance of the features and lines is perfect. He makes no mistakes in the harmony of the faces he paints. To this work on drawing is added artistic research on color. And it is with equal joy that he juggles with faded tones or much more raw ones. Translated from French Catalogue Galerie Pascale Bello, Luxembourg