Ribbon candy? Dreams? Thick paint and thin lines in so many beautiful colors whimsically applied to soft gradient backgrounds… sigh. This is the work of Toronto based artist Janna Watson. I absolutely love this description of her work, so had to include it:
“Bundles of color, made up of discrete yet inseparable instances of pigment—what Watson refers to as “moments”—are teeming and poised as though caught mid-multiplication. Sweeps of paint re-direct sharply and fold over themselves; thin, rigid ink lines cut into the pictorial field as rudimentary elements in an increasingly complex system of painterly language.”
Bundles of color… LOVE. Janna has a show at Bau-Xi Gallery in Vancouver right now, until February 25th – and then her work will be hung at Bau-Xi in Toronto, opening April 1. More info here.
These are wonderful- they are like their own little world i want to go explore
these pretty colorful swirly paintings feel like asian paintings meets expressionism: cherry blossoms and mountains, or asian woman figure with head piece and the thin gesture lines look like asian brush text.
yes! excellent description nikkie!
Oh how I love these!!
I can totally see in the red painting a gaucho riding a white horse up in the air, towards the red sunset, and a little bald man with a jetpack following them.
Beautiful stuff. I especially like the last couple with the streaks that almost look like rainbows.