Turquoise with Yellow and Orange

About Turquoise with Yellow and Orange

This contemporary abstract painting has a floral theme rendered in turquoise and orange.

The beautiful artwork of Canadian artist Jennifer Hornyak has long been inspired by the rich colours found in the still life paintings of European masters. But her unique visual language, which has adopted vivid colour palettes and expressive brushwork, lies somewhere 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.
Turquoise with Yellow and Orange is a single bouquet of flowers in a turquoise vase—the white and orange blossoms with dashes of deep purple pop against the deep blue backdrop. A curated passage of bright orange at the top of the piece offers visual interest and references the bouquet’s palette.

“I’ve long been experimenting with acrylics…I usually use them as a foundation for my oil paintings…using ink and all kinds of oil sticks…working on paper and trying new ideas and actually loving it.” 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.