Happy Thanksgiving! + Featured Artist Share: Jeanette Jarville

We hope you're all enjoying the weather on such a lovely Thanksgiving Day!

(A reminder that we are closed Thanksgiving Day, but will be back to regular hours starting tomorrow, Tuesday October 11th, at 8AM!)

In addition to celebrating Thanksgiving, with all of the beautiful autumn colours and bright leaves, please enjoy our blog's featured artist today! Every so often we like to share some of our favourite artists from Vancouver with our readers and art appreciators. If you're an artist who would like to be featured, or know an artist we should feature, let us know in the comments below!

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Thick and Thin, Acrylic on Cradled Panel, 30x30

Today's artist is an Emily Carr graduate and contemporary fine artist, public installator and sculptor. With her bold use of colours and harmonizing compositions, Jeanette Jarville's abstracts, portraits and landscapes capture a distinct vibrancy and movement within her pieces... simultaneously in a wonderfully still, split-second fraction of an instant. As quoted from her artist statement on her website:

"Art has a purpose, a need, not only materially -...but to fill a need in our consciousness. For me creating art fills the demand I place on myself to achieve and accomplish the most of my life, my reason for being. Creating art in my own unique style enables people to examine my selective view(s) of a reality at that moment."

Jeanette Jarville's use of painting on clear acrylic panels also adds another level of uniqueness and authenticity to her work, for "once a brushstroke is put down, it cannot be painted over", and the final work is viewed from the opposite side of the panel, creating a striking and illuminating effect in the final piece. A very beautiful and fitting technique!

Dancing On the Edge, Acrylic Reverse Painting, 28x60   We hope you've enjoyed this colourful segment of our featured artist share today! For more information, please visit Jeanette Jarville's website at www.jeanettejarville.com/

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(Acrylic paints are an excellent medium for painting, due to their quickness of drying time and ability to bind to just about any primed surface! They can be used on canvas (of course), birchwood (a lovely effect), and nearly any other kind of rigid surface or panel! To explore more surfaces for your acrylic paints, visit our online store here.)