ARTIST PROFILE

Anouk Alexandra Jonker

  • Netherlands (b. 1989 in Uithoorn)
  • Currently in Victoria, Canada.
  • Anouk Jonker is a Dutch emerging artist, whose imagery is influenced by her European upbringing in a rural Canadian landscape. Her current body of work explores the physicality of paint and the duality between abstract and representational art.
Paris Saw Me Naked

Paris Saw Me Naked

  • 2014
  • Oil on Canvas
  • 36 x 36 inches

  • The sculptures in this painting are Venus sculptures missing heads and limbs. "Paris Saw Me Naked" refers to an epigram in the Anthologia, where Aphrodite wonders where Praxiteles first saw her naked.
  • Animisa - thumbnail Untitled - thumbnail The Heart's Awakening - thumbnail Evolution of a Magpie - thumbnail The Deep Love That Binds Us - thumbnail Flowers and Fruit - thumbnail Bud of the Bud - thumbnail Paris Saw Me Naked - thumbnail Vita Similis Umbrae // Life Resembles a Shadow - thumbnail

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    Select Works | 2012 - 2014