ALCANTARA,JENNYBRID
Jennybird Alcantara's minutely detailed oil paintings are filled with objects that possess un-borrowed symbolism, drawing the viewer deeply into a world both strange and beautiful. The majority of her work is oil paintings on wood, but she also creates art dolls inspired by her paintings and acrylic works on paper. Her work has at its core a dreamlike narrative and through her paintings she contemplates the complex interconnectedness of opposites as seen through the prism of myth, fable and fantasy. Jennybird uses the symbolism of duality to explore the connection of life and death and the veil in between, as well as the relationship between the beauty and cruelness of nature, that of the natural world as well as human and animal nature. The anthropomorphic qualities in her characters show the relationship of the central figure to the world she inhabits.
