The Art of Jennifer Sowders
Artist’s Series Statement
To an artist, hands are a beautiful thing. Beyond prayer, hands empower the soul. They also tell every story under the sun. Trial to triumph, compassion to crucifixion--these hands are filled with every line of life.
My works convey an underlying spiritual theme; with overtones of societal issues. The element of 'hands' depicted are an important vehicle to deliver an expression of emotions that need no face to convey, no voice to tell. Rich meaning is drawn on an individual basis as each viewer finds themselves moved by the emotional tone of the piece, depiction, or left with a hunger to discover ’why?’.
For this series I use an earthen palette with contrastive emphasis for a direct and impacting visual image; the inherent darkness to convey a dreamlike 'state of thought'. My desire is to pull the viewer into empathy; fusing personal life experience with the message and emotion that the painting exudes.
Artist’s Series Statement
Birds are content creatures. In all the business they do in a day, they do so with playful: awareness, determination and daring. It is through their tireless model I find inspiration.
‘Freedom’ is a series of works that express, through the form of birds, the challenges of balancing the hats of artist, wife and mother. Unorthodox inspiration from M.C. Escher explores confined spaces, while symbolic expressions of waiting and/or suppression, and passages of ‘breaking free’ fill my work.
The element of color saturation and material play a subtle, expressive part to my work. Wood or fiber=present reality, gold or silver=hope of the future, resin or wax=containment, degree of color saturation=degree of freedom.
All of my work is copyrighted and may not be copied or reproduced in any form without written permission from me.
This link includes work outside of my regular series. Examples of commissioned work are included as well as sold and for sale items.