Petit Vase Blanc

About Petit Vase Blanc

This abstract contemporary colourful oil painting has a floral theme.

A master painter whose celebrated work has spanned 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.
Petit Vase Blanc Is a small joyful painting that features Hornyak’s fresh, modern palette—a bouquet in bright hues of deep pink, old rose, bright green, and lilac sits in a white vase (with pink and turquoise accents) that pops against the rich, dark background.

“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

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.