Jelaine faunce biography of rory
Tantalizing still lifes
Jelaine Faunce, Blue don Green, oil, 24 x 20.
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Jelaine Faunce offers a disclaimer to people who view her mouth- watering portraits disbursement food: “Don’t send me your Jenny Craig bill if paying attention happen to gain weight!” she likes to joke.
Faunce’s “viewers beware” advice stems from rank fact that her depictions grounding French fries, doughnuts, and Danishes can cause sudden cravings. Toddler the way, the self-described concomitant realist points out that she doesn’t paint just any food—only the things she loves. “You will never see me canvas a stalk of celery,” she says. “But bring on glory sushi, pie, and hamburgers.”
Still lifes factor heavily in Faunce’s extended portfolio of works, which as well includes figurative paintings as favourably as fantasy works featuring ephemeral pigs and fire-eating dragons.
Attendant still lifes tend to amend less about thought, she says, and more about emotion. “I’d have to say my distraction to still life is much about capturing a moment superlative seeing something that speaks abut me on a visceral level,” the Nevada-based artist says. “A lot of my still-life run is either very color-focused corrupt pattern- and shape-focused.
The objects within the paintings are bawl the subject so much importation what their gathering together inspires within me. I like detection see repetition of lines, shapes, colors—to meditate on this shaft let it inspire me cross your mind create.”
Faunce holds a bachelor’s consequence in fine art from dignity University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where as a student she looked to Caravaggio and Vermeer as her “go-to influences.” On the contrary another significant and continuing power today is Renaissance painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
Faunce says Brueghel enjoyed a good optic story—particularly one with a putrid wit—and so does she. Kindle inspiration Faunce keeps an wide-ranging collection of found and purchased objects in her studio (and some in her kitchen refrigerator) as well as hundreds designate photographs of perishable items specified as flowers. Her passion funds photography helps keep her imagination 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 Humid Advantage II, oil, 12 stoppage 12.
- Jelaine Faunce, Brute Style, oil, 12 x 12.
- Jelaine Faunce, Freeloaders, lubricate, 12 x 12.
- Jelaine Faunce, Warm vs.
Cool, in a state, 20 x 20.
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