Q: What inspires your creations?
A: This is actually a hard question to answer. And to be perfectly honest I really don’t know. It’s often hard to identify where my ideas come from. Sometimes the image of a complete painting more » “Interview with the Artist John Brophy”
Celebrating the hard-earned wisdom of childhood, Sullivan-Beeman depicts subjects who are often young, hauntingly innocent, and teetering on the edge of naïveté. She uses her personal dream journal to provoke her artwork, exploring Jung’s collective unconscious with an overt curiosity for the bizarre and the esoteric, especially alchemy and the tarot. more » “Interview with the Artist Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman”
Jel Ena is a Serbian born multi-media artist living in her adopted home of Los Angeles. She comes from a family of professional artists in every field who supported her pursuit of the fine arts. Jel Ena attended the Academy of Fine Art, Univesity of Belgrade, where she received her MFA in painting. She has been showing in galleries around the world where her work is widely collected, as well as freelancing in the movie, television, and video game industry as a designer.
Jel Ena’s work displays a mastery of the figure and color. Her style is instantly recognizable and extraordinarily matchless in its visualization. Utilizing her mastery of acrylic/oil paints, pastels, graphite and colored pencils; intricate emotions and hyper surreal visions are born and enchant every viewer into her dark sensual dreamscape.
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Q: Tell us a little about your method and how you came to favor this medium.
A: I worked only in acrylic for the first 15 years of painting, then it 2004, I switched to oils. These days it tends to ne a combo of both, starting initial exploration with acrylic, and eventually moving the painting into oil.
Q: Do you consider yourself a story teller, myth maker or legend maker?
A: I consider myself a human who is lucky enough to have found painting. I wish everyone would try it. It’s kind of the best thing ever.
Q: When you create art is there a particular message you intent to impart?
Q: How long have you been an artist? Please tell us a little about your chosen medium.
A: I would say I officially started showing my work as a professional artist about 4 or 5 years ago. I paint with acrylic paint on wood panel. I like the smooth surface of wood panels, which allows for more detailed work through a lot of layering and blending.
Q: Have you been trained, and if so from what institution? Or are you self taught?
A: I am self taught. I graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, however majored in apparel design. It wasn’t until a little later in my life I decided to paint.
