Monday, 14 April 2014

Jennifer Shamo @ Hamilton Artists Inc. II

Jennifer Shamo Untitled 2013; Photo credit: Karen Thiessen, 2014
In the two Untitled watercolour-based mixed media works in this post, Jennifer Shamo carries forward her theme of life cycles and plant biology with an autumnal colour palette. The imagery in the above artwork references the underwater plant life that one would see snorkelling along the Great Barrier Reef.
Jennifer Shamo Untitled detail 2013; Photo credit: Karen Thiessen, 2014
The longer one looks, the more one sees.
Jennifer Shamo Untitled detail 2013; Photo credit: Karen Thiessen, 2014
Jennifer Shamo Untitled 2013; Photo credit: Karen Thiessen, 2014
From a distance, this piece looks like an abstract face. Of her works, this is the most tightly clustered and centred on the paper. While the previous artwork had an underwater quality, this work is decidedly above ground. I see wheat sheaves, tree rings, and seed pods.
Jennifer Shamo Untitled detail 2013; Photo credit: Karen Thiessen, 2014
Shamo plans to attend teacher's college and graduate school in the future. I hope that she intends to devote herself to a studio practice because it would be a waste to let her raw artistic talent and sensitivity to her surroundings lie fallow. Jennifer Shamo is an emerging artist to watch.
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1 comment:

  1. Judy Martin14 April 2014 at 09:23

    I love this work. Especially the circular one that you describe as being above ground.
    So loose, yet the many individual drawings in each painting are carefully done.
    Amazing that she can maintain that balance in watercolour. I agree with you about her talent.

    Thanks for showing these.

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