Helter Skelter Today

About Helter Skelter Today

This contemporary abstract and colourful oil painting has a floral theme.

Jennifer Hornyak’s singular 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.
Helter Skelter Tomorrow features Hornyak’s inspired rich palette—a curated mix of light and dark hues- a tapestry of expressive brushstrokes in aubergine, rosy pink, cranberry red, melon and light green that dance around the canvas and pop against the contrasting dark backdrop.

“I want the viewer of my work to experience a warmth, a connection—like a friendship.” 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.