‘To me, the motif itself is an insignificant factor, what I want to reproduce is what lies between the motif and me’

 Claude Monet

Jennyfer Grassi is a free spirit. Entirely committed to her painting, working in a sensitive and intuitive way, she sets off on a pictorial voyage. Her paintings always start off in the same way. Firstly, with a patch of colour upon a white canvas. Then, gradually, comes a sense of balance, a feeling of unity and shades rubbing shoulders. It’s painting as music, only with vibrations made of colour, not sound; combining, echoing, creating a larger pattern.

Jennyfer Grassi’s paintings demonstrate two distinct approaches: that of the onlooker: uncomplicated, unworried, a silent witness of the power exerted by nature over humanity, where the artist’s wanderings are driven by a sense of physical urgency translated into the painter’s every gesture, and of the looming future. Secondly, that of the poet, imbuing these great floral expanses with a misleading air of innocence. No sooner has the key to the mystery seemingly been found, than a veil descends again and the frantic search for the solution to the riddle starts over once again.

For example, in the work ‘Flow Figure’, we see a fiery halo embracing a world teeming with life, amidst an eruption of dazzling blooms. Other compositions depict sunflowers that gush forth streams of colour that are flung into our eyes; pansies that hurl themselves against the sides of the frame and stamen that quiver at a touch.

Whether it’s floral whirlwinds or panoramas of flowers that are depicted, the subject matter constitutes the perfect excuse to let a certain sense of movement run wild. Jennyfer Grassi’s artworks are veritable explosions. Sometimes the artist cannot have enough of colour, and applies what remains, leaving the canvas bare here and there: such is our unquenchable appetite for wide open spaces, in art as in nature.