Jennifer Walton’s newest series of paintings, Microcosm, invites the viewer into the shimmering world of bees, butterflies, and the flowers they pollinate. This series dwells on the beauty of this miniature world as a response to the rapidly declining populations of pollinating insects throughout the globe. Jennifer began growing flowers on her Toronto rooftop to aid these threatened insects, and quickly realized the potential in translating their likeness and movements onto the canvas. Created with thin layers of colour and glaze, the paintings possess fragments of this microcosmic world on a large scale. They reveal complicated systems of mathematical patterns and colour which are fascinating in their own right but also window into an environment we overlook at our peril.
