Artwork description:

This is an earlier artwork of mine that is heavily influenced by Anselm Kiefer. It seems to be about humanity's failed efforts to order and control nature despite best intentions. Is this a garden of disaster or hope? Is this lithograph (artist's proof) about the tender angst of wanting beauty and happiness, but dissappointed. You can't go home again? There is no paradise? This is a stunning small work for the perfect space.

‘Darren's Garden’ is an original, one of a kind artwork by Darren Jekel and it is signed and titled on the front. A Certificate of Authenticity is included.

Description: “This lithograph technically pushes the boundaries of technique and has complicated areas of bold texture and color and light contrast.

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:

ink, wateroolor, paper

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