Welcome to my site. Represented by Mary Benson Gallery.
Artists Statement Janine Brinck
Oil Paintings
“Art is an aspiration, eternally impotent, and incomplete.”
George Sand
I paint to challenge and entertain.
Since these paintings are figurative, they start out as pure
draftsmanship, and then evolve over time into an equation of
composition.I try to capture water's true essence, making it real, and
unreal, not surreal, an organic abstract painting in the truest sense.
My goal is to bridge a gap between the real world and abstract
thinking.
I have loved painting pictures of water for many years, but came
upon this style in a lucid dream, could see the dream painting in my
minds eye, but was unable to find a way to put it on canvas until I
saw, at the New York Public Library, the compositional theory in a
painting by Howard Hodgkin, though his was horizontal, not vertical.
A piece that is realized is a joy to paint. The first layers are
psychedelically bright. They are washed away with ethereal bone white
glazes. If properly lit, the colors glow from beneath the layers. I add
the blotches following strict classical guidelines; yet I seek the
effect of free flowing form, which the viewer finds energizing or
relaxing, depending on the piece. The paint is applied in a way to make
it last as long as possible.
I have been a resident of the East Village of Manhattan, New York City since 1983
I was always drawing everywhere as a child,
2 years at Washington State University, studying art.
Began seriously painting in 1992, an obsession unignorable.
BRINCK 
