Transformation through Abstracts, Ice and Nature.
- kevin jenne
- Apr 6
- 2 min read
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It started with a message from a man who was beginning again.
He told me, in a few simple sentences, that life had shifted in ways he hadn’t expected. A new home, a new rhythm, a quiet attempt at rebuilding something meaningful. He didn’t ask for anything overly specific, just a painting. Something abstract. Something that could live with him in this new chapter.
I took that request into the woods.
There is something about creating outside that feels honest. No walls, no noise, just the elements shaping the process as much as I do. I brought oil paints and ice I savaged from a local hockey area.
It melted slowly as I worked, thinning pigments, shifting textures, creating marks I couldn’t fully control. The painting became a collaboration between intention and environment.
When it was finished, it didn’t feel static.
It felt alive.
I delivered the piece to him, and for a while, I didn’t hear much.
Often that is the way it goes, art leaves my hands and becomes part of someone else’s world.
Later, he told me about his daughter.
She was in her twenties, and she kept going into the room where the painting was.
Not just once, but again and again. She told him she loved it.
That it didn’t feel the same each time she looked at it.
That depending on the day, depending on the light, something about it changed.
That stayed with me.
Because that is exactly why I create art.
Not just to make something to look at, but to create something that lives with people. Something that shifts with their moods, their mornings, their seasons. Something that becomes part of the atmosphere of a home, part of conversations, part of quiet moments.
I don’t think of my work as finished when I sign it.
It continues to evolve in the spaces it enters. Light moves across it. Time settles into it. People bring their own stories to it.
And sometimes, without planning it, it becomes part of a family.
That’s the kind of art I want to make, paintings that changes, connects, and quietly belongs.
I am deeply inspired by my own family, and by the nature I come from, the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Those roots, those landscapes, and those relationships are always present in my work, shaping what I create and why I create it.
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