Artist Statement
Welcome to my website!! Thank you for taking the time to review my work. If you see something you like, please visit my online gallery where original art and other products are for sale: joanne-shenfeld.pixels.com/
My work has been featured on the front page of the Life Section of the Toronto Star Newspaper: https://bit.ly/2Rgb4xF
I have painted and created all my life, drawn to and inspired by the layering and interplay of color, shape, texture and images in both artistic creations and real life scenes. I have always been interested in learning a variety of approaches and ways of seeing and interpreting imagery. I have studied art and taken classes continuously since adolescence, and built up a unique artistic style by incorporating this knowledge into my work and making it my own. My art is about adding richness, depth and understanding to each piece by adding successive layers of work. Each layer highlights and enhances different parts of the previous work, gradually building up a dense and intricate surface.
Much of my work takes the form of an abstracted landscape, evoking a colourful and whimsical imagined vista. Other subjects include floral and nature images. More recently, I have incorporated photographic transfers into my artwork. I use the same layering process, but start with a transferred image into the first layer. I then continue to work on top of the photo, using color, line and collage to intensify the emotion and highlight different aspects of the image.
My work has been featured on the front page of the Life Section of the Toronto Star Newspaper: https://bit.ly/2Rgb4xF
I have painted and created all my life, drawn to and inspired by the layering and interplay of color, shape, texture and images in both artistic creations and real life scenes. I have always been interested in learning a variety of approaches and ways of seeing and interpreting imagery. I have studied art and taken classes continuously since adolescence, and built up a unique artistic style by incorporating this knowledge into my work and making it my own. My art is about adding richness, depth and understanding to each piece by adding successive layers of work. Each layer highlights and enhances different parts of the previous work, gradually building up a dense and intricate surface.
Much of my work takes the form of an abstracted landscape, evoking a colourful and whimsical imagined vista. Other subjects include floral and nature images. More recently, I have incorporated photographic transfers into my artwork. I use the same layering process, but start with a transferred image into the first layer. I then continue to work on top of the photo, using color, line and collage to intensify the emotion and highlight different aspects of the image.
