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Lockdown Woman

Lockdown Woman, CUBIST | Paintings, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Drawings & Etc.
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Lockdown Woman
Oil on canvas. This painting process began with the creation of an abstract painting where I channelled my emotions and reactions to the Toronto lockdown (one of the longest lockdowns in the world). After multiple layers of paint were built up, I began to remove the paint. Through this process of stripping away the layers of paint a critical realization emerged in my mind: women were grappling with the lockdown in ways that were astounding. Whether caretakers juggling ill relatives, jobs, and homeschooled children or nurses on the front line or domestic abuse survivors waiting for a moment to break free, these women were the face of the lockdown. As I looked at the canvas I began to see a new image of a woman. Using oil paints I pulled the image forward to create the painting you see here.
  Jennie Toby
CUBIST | Paintings, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Drawings & Etc.    40 x 16 x 2    $600.00    3   
Work Medium
Oil
Artwork Title
Lockdown Woman
Bio
Jennie paints primarily in the abstract expressionist style. Using gestural brushstrokes, bold colors and fluid oil paints she creates artwork that is both spontaneous yet cohesive. Channeling the subconscious, her paintings capture hazy memories, impulses, and deep emotions.

For nearly two decades living in New York City Jennie was immersed in the art world. as a self taught artist she considers this a important beginning to her arts education. Additionally, Jennie holds a BA in international relations from Florida State University an MS in Education from Fordham University and an MA in Psychology from New York university.

Today she resides in Canada’s wine country where profound natural beauty blooms alongside the decline of a manufacturing region. This paradox strongly influences her. “It mirrors that same push and pull that reveals itself repeatedly in our lives and in my work- renewal and destruction.”

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