Ice Blue with Magenta

About Ice Blue with Magenta

This large abstract contemporary painting has a floral theme and features the colours blue and magenta.

Canadian artist Jennifer Hornyak’s unique aesthetic has produced colourful, evocative, and elegant 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.
Ice Blue with Magenta reflects the inspired palette Hornyak is known for. As is characteristic of her practice, the composition—a turquoise coloured vase of ‘flowers’ is enlivened by a mix of light and dark hues: expressive brushstrokes of pale pink, orange, purple, light green, and golden yellow. A spontaneous shock of magenta propels the work into a contemporary realm.

“Most artists want to do the painting of their lives. I’m searching for that…trying to express myself, always pushing forward to find that thing that is essentially mine.” 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 lives and works in Montreal.