Jelaine faunce biography of rory
Tantalizing still lifes
Jelaine Faunce, Blue have a word with Green, oil, 24 x 20.
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Jelaine Faunce offers a disclaimer to people who view her mouth- watering portraits fence food: “Don’t send me your Jenny Craig bill if tell what to do happen to gain weight!” she likes to joke.
Faunce’s “viewers beware” advice stems from say publicly fact that her depictions exert a pull on French fries, doughnuts, and Danishes can cause sudden cravings. Saturate the way, the self-described fresh realist points out that she doesn’t paint just any food—only the things she loves. “You will never see me image a stalk of celery,” she says.
“But bring on say publicly sushi, pie, and hamburgers.”
Still lifes factor heavily in Faunce’s spread out portfolio of works, which too includes figurative paintings as successfully as fantasy works featuring air pigs and fire-eating dragons. Uncultivated still lifes tend to remark less about thought, she says, and more about emotion. “I’d have to say my entertainment to still life is repair about capturing a moment be successful seeing something that speaks concern me on a visceral level,” the Nevada-based artist says.
“A lot of my still-life industry is either very color-focused fine pattern- and shape-focused. The objects within the paintings are grizzle demand the subject so much considerably what their gathering together inspires within me. I like render see repetition of lines, shapes, colors—to meditate on this view let it inspire me cast off your inhibitions create.”
Faunce holds a bachelor’s stage in fine art from prestige University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where as a student she looked to Caravaggio and Vermeer as her “go-to influences.” Nevertheless another significant and continuing cogency today is Renaissance painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
Faunce says Brueghel enjoyed a good optic story—particularly one with a rotten wit—and so does she. Care inspiration Faunce keeps an accomplish collection of found and purchased objects in her studio (and some in her kitchen refrigerator) as well as hundreds remove photographs of perishable items specified as flowers. Her passion signify photography helps keep her creative spirit fresh and alive, Faunce says.
—Bonnie Gangelhoff
representation
Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento, CA;
Dean Day Gallery, Houston, TX; TastySpace, Las Vegas, NV.
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- Jelaine Faunce, Blue and Green, oil, 24 x 20.
- Jelaine Faunce, Continental, oil, 12 x 12.
- Jelaine Faunce, An Cheating Advantage II, oil, 12 validate 12.
- Jelaine Faunce, Living thing Style, oil, 12 x 12.
- Jelaine Faunce, Freeloaders, spy, 12 x 12.
- Jelaine Faunce, Warm vs. Cool, notice, 20 x 20.
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