Jeanette Jarville is a Canadian painter par excellence. She lives in Richmond, British Columbia. What is most remarkable and most difficult to portray about her style of painting is that she paints on clear acrylic sheets rather than on stretched canvas. The difficulty in painting on clear acrylic sheets is that the viewer ultimately sees the painted specimen from the side opposite to the one that forms the surface painted on.
This means that she first uses her brush to paint in her signature and then paints over that layer. It also means that she cannot rectify any mistakes in a layer of painting that lies beneath the current layer.
What most stupefies you is the high quality of the finished painting when you get to see it from the other side of the clear acrylic sheet. Another aspect of her work is the exquisite beauty that you get to see of the exact rendition by her of the floral arrangement in her own inimitable style.
Jeanette believes that the clear acrylic sheets she uses as the medium of her artistic expression adds a most powerful effect to each piece of art portrayed by her. She adds that it also provides luminescence to her art. Jeanette is also very widely known for her stained glass work. Jeanette loves simplicity in artistic expression which she portrays through use of contrast and bright and subdued color hues.
Organic lines and a mixture of eclectic styles are featured in most of her paintings. A very vivid imagination is Jeanette's forte and a visit to her studio named Artizen in Richmond clearly makes felt this strongpoint of her persona through the many pieces of art on display there.
Her paintings are almost always mostly oils on acrylic. Besides this, she also paints on pottery and ceramics. What makes her a complete artist in the complete sense is her proclivity for making furniture out of both wood and metal and mosaic work.
She also makes beautiful chess sets, lamps, and even purses. When she was in one of her dark moods, she even built herself a coffin which she surprisingly enough titled Hope Chest. There is such a diverse range of styles to her work that you tend to feel as if you are viewing the collected works of about fifteen different artists.
Jeanette Jarville had what it takes for a fully devoted life to art since she was just five years old. She took every art course that was available to her in high school and even developed photography as a hobby side by side with painting and travelling. She forged her way through a scholarship at Emily Carr for 3 years out of the four she spent there. She later on dabbled in a sculpture course in Berlin for one semester.
Today her art has a clearcut signature identity to it in the form of the bright colors she uses therein. The bright colors and the simplicity of her art is so apparent that even a new fan of hers is bound to recognize her paintings as made by her.
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