Jennifer Walden: Birds, Bears and other Beasts

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Jennifer Walden

Birds, Bears and other Beasts

New Work by Jennifer Walden

Jennifer Walden has become known for her robust paintings of animals in the northern landscape, accomplished in richly textured paint. Over the past few years Jennifer has been studying the techniques Italian master painters used to render light. The result of these studies is a fusion of her interest in portraying northern subjects with the lessons she has learned through her observations.

In Walden's most recent work she continues to focus on the character and force of the animals she portrays, and has been experimenting with background effects. In her painting, Frosted Bison, or her fox painting, Frozen Lake Moment, she has translated the sfumato effect of Italian painting into a background of snow and frost suspended in the atmosphere. In other works she has broken the background into spheres of colour that suggest but obscure the setting or created a boldly abstract background which push the animals to the extreme fore, as is found in her painting, Black Bear.