Coral with Green and Lemon

About Coral with Green and Lemon

This abstract contemporary oil painting has a floral theme featuring the colours coral, green and lemon.

This elegant oil painting is by one of Canada’s finest contemporary artists, Jennifer Hornyak. The Canadian painter is perhaps known best for her love of Fauvist colours, and distinctive expressive brushwork. Her intimate style has long drawn inspiration from German Expressionism and 20th-century French Fauvism, including the work of Henri Matisse. Yet her distinctive visual language remains resolutely modern, occupying a space between figuration and abstraction.
In recent years, much of her work has explored floral themes; however Hornyak’s flowers transcend mere representation. Her potent imagery is universal--acting instead as metaphors for life. She refers to them as ‘flowerscapes.’
Jennifer Hornyak frequently experiments with acrylics as an underpainting for oil. She works intuitively, selecting colours and building opulent layers of paint to achieve depth, dimension--light and shadow and a sensuous texture that transforms the visual experience into a tactile one.
Coral with Green and Lemon illustrates Hornyak’s signature use of vivid colours—dark and light green as a background that allows the bright coral of the vase of flowers, a touch of lavender and black for contrast.
A surprising and delightful detail—a stencilled figure of a woman appears in a small ‘window’ in the picture plane.

“I do many layers again…using collage to a great extent…using the abstract shapes that are dear to me in a smaller way.” Jennifer Hornyak

“Her appeal to the unconscious was impressionistic like an invitation to the garden of the soul.” Bernard Théoret, Art Reviewer

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13.5 × 16.5 in 34.29 × 41.91 cm

Jennifer Hornyak studied at the Grimsby School of Art in England. In 1961, she moved to Montreal where she attended McGill University, the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal and the Centre Saidye Bronfman. Hornyak has exhibited throughout North America and Europe including the Paris World Exhibition in 1987 where her work was shown alongside that of Modigliani, Picasso and van Dongen. Jennifer Hornyak’s work is represented in many private and corporate collections including Bombardier Transport, Burroughs Wellcome, McCarthy Tétrault, Power Corporation and Hyatt Regency Hotel. She still works and lives in Montreal.