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Unfinished Pictures
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Artwork Description:
It makes you wonder how a piece of steel could come to look such a way. What did it belong to? What has it seen? What happened to it?
Much like people really. From a simple glance you don’t know what they’ve they’ve been through. What brought them to this very moment. You see what you want to see. Make your conclusions without the full picture.
You wouldn’t know at first glance that Ivan grew up on a station. You wouldn’t know he use to ride bulls semi professionally with the career cut short. You wouldn’t know that when Jenna met him his nickname was cowboy and it took her months of seeing him to get the courage to ask to paint him. But now you do.
The picture is still unfinished. Like this painting. But that’s no reason not to enjoy it for what it is and what you do know.
Category: Paintings (Oils & Acrylics)
Artwork Medium: Oil on Scrap Metal from an Old Station
43h x 48w x 2d (cm)
Artist Bio:
Jenna Pickering is a 26 year-old self-taught artist and portrait painter. This year she is taking the step to doing art full-time after years of doing it on the side as a hobby. Throughout this time she has been lucky enough to have won awards in The Lester Prize, Cossack Art Awards, Gascoyne Art Awards and more. Jenna was also on Season 1 of ABC's
Portrait Artist of the Year and made it all the way to the finals. She was then on Season 7 of
Ernie Dingo Going Places where they came to her Tom Price studio (house) to look at my art.
Throughout this time in finding her style and values in art Jenna has been lucky enough to meet and paint people such as Phil Collins, Don Walker, Shane Howard, Troy Cassar-Daley, lan Moss, Paul Kelly, Tim Freedman, amazing Indigenous Elders and more. She has also assisted in judging the
Showcase in Pixels and
Jundunmannah Art Awards. In her previous job, Jenna worked in events and founded the
Ashburton Art Awards that is now in its third year of running since its creation.
Jenna paints in a realistic style because she finds that in todays world no one wants to be who they are. So she finds joy in showing people that beauty is in the lines, the greys, the scars. They're what make you, you. She also has a huge passion for sustainability and the earth and tries to work it into her pieces. Jenna does this through using discarded items and trash, turning them into treasure. As well as in her latest piece trying to add a subtle tad of activism through her work that she would like to look into further.
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