Fancy Mix

About Fancy Mix

This small contemporary abstract painting by Jennifer Hornyak has a floral theme.

Her superb paintings once graced the walls of a gallery in France beside famous artists Modigiliani and Picasso. Jennifer Hornyak has been creating beautiful fine contemporary paintings for more than four decades. 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.
Fancy Mix features a single black vase centered in the picture plane that illustrates Hornyak’s ability to use dark and light hues to great effect. A bouquet of flowers in a rich mix of deep red, pale yellow, dark green and rose with dashes of white stands out against the deep blue background.

“Regardless of my intentions, the final shape of each flowerpot is a direct reflection of my mood. The objects may be the same, but how I paint them entirely depends on how I feel about the world that day. ” Jennifer Hornyak

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

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.