Site for Artist / Painter Gina Jrel!

Medium:

Oil, acrylic and oil paint scrapings from the artist's painting pallet on gallery-wrapped canvas

Dimensions:

25"w x 37" h (Includes wood border)

Edge Treatment:

This piece is bordered on all sides with bonde wood (think it is pine), and thin, marbelized oil paint shavings from the artist's painting pallet are mounted to the wood trim n the outside edges.

Framing:

See above

Price:

$3,400

Original available for purchase:

Yes

Available in Giclee:

Yes

Based on the One-Liner:

"My Little Demon, Making Me Choose...Making Me an Offer I Can't Refuse..."

From the Song:

My Little Demon

Performed By:

Lindsey Buckingham / Fleetwood Mac

From the CD:

The Dance

Another incredibly personal painting, this piece sums up the duality of my feelings about the creative gift I have possessed since very early childhood.

I love it, and hate it.
It both identifies me, and plagues me.
I control it, then it controls me.

There are so many wonderful things about this gift. Yet at
times I feel like I am a prisoner of it, and all the negative things that exist within it's realm.

"My Gift My Curse" is an expressive statement that, after 30 years of creative output, I am learning to accept and embrace both aspects of my creative gift & curse.

For me, it has never been a choice, but a resigned acceptance.

The painting is of my own hands, holding a paintbrush, and bound at the wrists. The paintbrush symbolizes the acceptance my artistic gift, and the bondage symbolizes my inability to escape it.

From a technical perspective, this piece was interesting to create. I usually adorn the edges of my pieces with objects or designs that compliment the concept of the piece. I began contimplating what to put on the edges of this painting...what would aid in the statement I was trying to make.

I was cleaning off my oil painting pallet one day, scraping the dried paint from the glass surface with a hand-held razor knife. Quite by accident I noticed the underside of the paint shavings: they were fantastic marbelized patterns of swirled oil color, randomly mixed together by weeks of previous painting activity. I loved them at first sight, and immediately knew they had to be incorporated into this painting, as they are a simple, unplanned, but wonderful by-product of this gift and curse.