Janice Jada Griffin
(Santa Fe, Great Britain, Oregon)
Chocolate Bar
Subject: Realism
Oil on wood panel (Split fountain technique)
36 x 144 in.

Chocolate Bar is hand-painted on board in industrial oil paint, using a split-fountain technique adopted from what originated as a Japanese printing method where multiple colors of ink were laid down at the same time next to each other. The paint is organized in a geometric patter where the individual painted sections have a loose, flowing appearance as if they were moving on the surface of water. The piece has a French Cleat wall-mounting system to keep it level on the wall, and it floats a few inches from the wall, giving it dimension and depth.

Janice Jada Griffin is an American-born and British-educated painter and writer. She lives and works in Northern New Mexico on the famous High Road to Taos near Santa Fe. Her works, particularly her paintings of women, are sold internationally, and she has been a contributing writer to Portland Interview magazine and Navajo Times. Having studied at Sotheby Parke Bernet in London, Janice Jada has a background, not only in studio painting, but in art history and interior design. In addition to the United States and Great Britain, she has lived in Chile, Algeria, Switzerland, Spain and France and speaks three languages - English, Spanish and French. Jada loves dancing and reading about the history of intellectuals on the Left Bank in Paris during the first half of the twentieth century. For 10 years she owned her own studio and gallery in Portland, Oregon’s legendary Pearl District, which was named in the early 1980s by her late partner, Thomas Paul Augustine. USA Today rated her gallery the “Best Gallery in an arts district outside of New York City.” The Oregonian newspaper stated, “Jada Griffin is gaining renown as one of the best American abstract expressionist painters.”

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36 x 144 in