JEAN VON BORSTEL

Jean von Borstel's art is not static; it is displacement and metaphor, surrealism turned upside-down, abstraction rearranged. On her canvas, metaphors speak to each other in color, burst into a thousand echoes of light.  Imagination and memory manifest in the splash of pigment running away from the brush. It is a riotous explosion, and the eye comes alive with quiet happiness. There is no time to wait for the shadows.

In the language of brushstrokes, notions enter surreptitiously but firmly into the silent places of consciousness. Jean’s women are glorious and mythical, their strength disproportionate, their gaze steady. Their message is Jungian, told without words, because that is the complicity of sisters. From their place on the wall, they regard the viewer with serene contemplation; in their wonderful silence resides a special nobility.