Artist- Jenna Anderson

Jenna Andersons art instantly caught my attention when i came across it. The amount of details in her works of beautiful forests and abandoned places haunted by faceless spirits in a world she has created of another time. I love the incomplete style of her work, lack of colour creating a quick sketch feel to the black and white drawings. However making the little bit of colour added even more captivating and bright as she uses it to connect the living and the dead in her mesmerising work.

Anderson also creates paintings, some self portraits and of certain scenery. She has a rough but detailed style in her paintings which i feel adds to the story created in her work, a feel of real life which is never perfect. The way she has created the reflection in the mirror as well as the light from the windows really bring a realistic feel to this room as if you could just step into it.
I have a huge interest in Andersons choice of subject in her "Restless Spirits" work. Exploring fiction and fantasy worlds can never be dull as each person imagines something completely different which means unlimited possibilities to be able to create in.

I feel i only briefly looked at this work in my own art. I wish i had explored this style further as i never really showed the context of the girls dream, the ruins and plants in a realistic element instead of abstract. I think it may have been interesting to have showed it in a drawing with the dancers in colour to stand out as the real emotions of the dreamer in her fantasy. However, i still stand by the abstract version where it is shown through the materials present as other people can not see ones dream.

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