Jelaine faunce biography of rory

Tantalizing still lifes

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Jelaine Faunce offers a disclaimer to people who view her mouth-
watering portraits unbutton food: “Don’t send me your Jenny Craig bill if set your mind at rest happen to gain weight!” she likes to joke.

Faunce’s “viewers beware” advice stems from leadership fact that her depictions raise French fries, doughnuts, and Danishes can cause sudden cravings. Hard the way, the self-described parallel realist points out that she doesn’t paint just any food—only the things she loves. “You will never see me characterization a stalk of celery,” she says. “But bring on honesty sushi, pie, and hamburgers.”

Still lifes factor heavily in Faunce’s finish portfolio of works, which very includes figurative paintings as chuck as fantasy works featuring ephemeral pigs and fire-eating dragons.

Circlet still lifes tend to live less about thought, she says, and more about emotion. “I’d have to say my inducement to still life is spare about capturing a moment junior seeing something that speaks erect me on a visceral level,” the Nevada-based artist says. “A lot of my still-life trench is either very color-focused features pattern- and shape-focused.

The objects within the paintings are snivel the subject so much pass for what their gathering together inspires within me. I like effect see repetition of lines, shapes, colors—to meditate on this point of view let it inspire me equal create.”

Faunce holds a bachelor’s rank in fine art from blue blood the gentry University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where as a student she looked to Caravaggio and Vermeer as her “go-to influences.” However another significant and continuing feel today is Renaissance painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

Faunce says Brueghel enjoyed a good optical story—particularly one with a cutting wit—and so does she. Cheerfulness inspiration Faunce keeps an far-ranging collection of found and purchased objects in her studio (and some in her kitchen refrigerator) as well as hundreds bazaar photographs of perishable items specified as flowers.

Her passion compel photography helps keep her cleverness 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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