What themes run throughout your work? The general theme that runs through my work is hope.
How do you hope your work will affect its audience? I intent that my appropriate audience feels empowered by my work and maybe sometimes others use it to confirm that certain emotions are acceptable. I hope that the people that are on the same page as me can see parts of themselves in my portraits.
What makes you decide to create your work? It’s not a decision but more compulsive than that. It’s just something that I’ve always done and it fulfills a need to deeply express myself so that I can simultaneously observe myself clearly and work things out. The act of painting alleviates a deep anxiety that I often feel.
Where do your talents lie? I’d say my talent lies in psychologically bettering myself with every portrait that I paint as the canvas promotes a seriously open dialogue.
What successes have you had so far? I feel the most successful when I get emails from clients telling me about how much they love their piece, what it means to them, and/or how perfect it is in their space.
What makes you creative? Creativity is a state of mind and acknowledging this extends its usefulness way beyond the arts.
How did you get started? I come from a family of artists generations back and so it was just normal to use painting and drawing as a way to pass the time and have fun or even cool down a tantrum.
What inspires you? I am so inspired by being alive. It’s kind of crazy that we all exist and thinking about that is so stimulating for me.
Who inspires you? I am so inspired by people like Klimt, van Gogh, Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, Simone de Beauvoir, Jane Roberts and Sanaya Roman...the list goes on. People who aren’t afraid to honour their deepest selves and don’t hide their truth inspire me the most. They make life interesting for me and I respect their honesty which in turn encourages me to be completely real myself.
What do you do when you are suffering from creative block? I used to bang my head against the wall and get really neurotic but now I do whatever I feel like instead which could be as simple as nothing. That always brings me back clear.
What are you trying to achieve? My whole life is a sort of self-actualization trip for me and painting is just an integral part of that journey.
Do you collaborate? Not yet. My best friend, Blair Kelly, is an amazing illustrator and we’ve thrown the idea around many times.
Ignoring money and all of life’s woes, what would you want to be? I’m doing exactly what I want.
Accepting the need for money and all of life’s woes, what do you want to be? I’m right on path. Money has nothing to do with it but I’m quite fortunate and also making a living.
What’s the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen / heard / experienced? Something I’ve never been able to forget is driving down the road one day when I saw a mother bird struggling desperately to pull it’s injured baby out of the middle of the road by it’s little wing. It was so heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time. It was such an awesome example of love and hope.
What do you consider to be the most important thing in life? For me it’s being truthful. Honest about who you are, honest about what you feel, honest about your work, honest about your friends and family. I think it’s really the only way to grow properly. When you’re really honest with yourself everything you do for yourself and others promotes love and wellness. Even your ability to enjoy life at that level becomes magical and that includes the painful parts. Dishonesty renders us all pretty selfish and useless.
Who/what is your nemesis and why? Bad karma.
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Jennifer Malvern
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Canada Web Link://
jennifermalvern.com Type of work displayed on Magnus://
Paintings
Work:// - Into the Light, Violet
- Untitled Dead Girl II
- The Heathen
- Reconstructing Woman
- Pushing Daisies
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