Gold with Pink Blush

About Gold with Pink Blush

This contemporary oil painting is an abstract of a still life with a floral theme.

A master painter whose celebrated work has spanned more than four decades, Jennifer Hornyak continues to create new and evocative paintings. Here, the Montreal based artist returns to a favourite genre—floral themed compositions rendered in abstracted form. 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. 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.
Gold with Pink Blush features Hornyak’s preferred palette—a mix of light and dark hues. The central image—a vase of flowers and a plate of golden coloured fruit on a table pay homage to a classic still life. The colours—pink blush, gold and burnt orange propel the work into the contemporary realm. The midnight blue and black background offers dramatic contrast.

“I don’t want to do flowers. Flowers, as I always say, God does those!” 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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26.5 × 26.5 in 67.31 × 67.31 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.