Lush and elegant this gorgeous still life by Jennifer Hornyak returns to a favourite subject…flowers. This painting—an oil on linen features a bouquet of creamy orange, yellow, purple and green in a dark green vase set against a soft azure blue background.
The rich palette speaks to classical influences but the abstracted form and lavish brush strokes are intended to suggest the flower as a metaphor.

“I don’t want to do flowers--flowers. As I always say, God does those!”
Jennifer Hornyak

She studied at the Grimsby School of Art in England. In 1961, she moved to Montreal where she attended McGill University, the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal and the Centre Saidye Bronfman. Hornyak has exhibited throughout North America and Europe including the Paris World Exhibition in 1987 where her work was shown alongside that of Modigliani, Picasso and van Dongen. Hornyak’s work is represented in many private and corporate collections.