The play between colour and surface is explored and revealed in this new set of paintings by Vancouver artist Jackie Dionne. Her methodology includes ordering the elements in the painting until they near contrivance and a state she describes as "dead" at which point she struggles to breathe life back into it...The result is a body of work that accents the process rather than the product.
"Each person and every object has its angel, which is simply its spirit or essence"
With this in mind, grunt has received a vast cross-section of interpretations of angels and their meanings. As angels are messengers between the sprititual and earthly realms so are artists the mediators between the ideal and the real. The nature of the submissions will be as varied and mysterious as the nature of angels themselves.
