JEAN JEWER

Growing up on the remote coast of Newfoundland, Jean Jewer watched gigantic icebergs float by, and wind and water whip and carve the land. Her abstract paintings testify to this first-hand experience of the raw energy, violence and beauty of Eastern Canada’s coastal landscape, demonstrating a visceral connection to the sublime drama of her environment. Weather forces parallel the way Jewer makes art; her work emerges from the canvas like a dramatic act of nature. Jewer elaborates: “This splattering liquid [of paint] resembles nature’s elements in the way that it flows, gushes, drips, and pours. These same features seem to parallel the way I make art. My paintings emerge like an act of nature: in an emotionally charged moment, I pick, I scrape, I slash, I mark my surfaces.”