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.
The Heart's Awakening

The Heart's Awakening

  • 2013
  • Oil on Canvas
  • 36 x 48 inches

  • This piece borrows a figure from L'Eveil du Coeur by Bouguereau, and discusses the dualities in art: decoration vs. function, abstract vs. representation, creation vs. result. The background is cleaning brushstrokes and pallets used to paint the figure.
  • 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