Jennifer Dreyfus

Artist Statement

Art for me is about capturing the moments in life along the way. As I experience it, our days are a series of ups and downs, waves that you ride through. No moment is like the preceding one or the one to follow. You don’t know what is coming. I seek to capture something of that moment – a slice of time - a piece of a day. I hope to portray the feeling of a moment in its tranquility, its turbulence or its tension. 

 

I often start a painting by making big, bold marks as a dramatic underpainting.  Over time paintings are reworked to find a point of stillness.  It's that hard work of ‘right here, right now’ that takes me to the still point.  A successful piece portrays any of the myriad of emotions each of us, as humans, experience - everything from balance, to uncertainty, hope, tension and so much more. Just a glimpse - a moment - of those emotions put down on paper.