Original artwork description:

‘California Eve’ is an original, one of a kind artwork by Darren Jekel and it is signed and titled on the back. A Certificate of Authenticity is included.

I am interested in the commonalities and the contrasts that compare the female figure to the coastal hills where I live. Similarities between the two are how the lines rhyme in ways that are a sublime invitation to the imagination. This particular painting is also a meditation on paradise, a common theme in my painting, Eve was expelled from Eden. I also used boldly reflective aluminum enamel and the surface of the painting dazzels as the view changes position.

Shipping: This artwork is offered stretched on a frame, ready to hang, and is about the largest size practical for packing in a box.

Master of Visual Art Degree - MFA, Maryland Institute, Mt. Royal School of Painting.
Bachelor Arts Degree – BA, University of California, Davis

Primary Influences: Wayne Thiebaud, who taught me how to oil paint at UC Davis; Renaissance; Raphael drawings; Post-Impressionists, Matisse & Van Gogh; Abstract Expressionists, Willem de Kooning & Cy Twombly; Neo-Expressionist, Anselm Kiefer; Currently I am not relating to Post-Modernism’s irony and I am exploring Meta-modern earnestness. I am interested in meaningfulness and not the ubiquitous decorative painting that is primarily meant to enhance the space it’s in.

Darren Jekel is married and fathers two daughters in northern California’s wine growing region.

Materials used:

Oil on stretched canvas

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