Australian Figurative Artist Carmel Jenkin in VL

Carmel Jenkin

VL

VISUAL LANGUAGE

contemporary fine art

VL

July 2013 Volume 2 No. 7

VL

Studio Visit Australia Daily Painter Carmel Jenkin

carmeljenkin.com

128

carmeljenkin.com

carmeljenkin.com

VL

Carmel Jenkin

I’ve been drawing and painting the female form since I was studying art in high school. Being barely a teenager, I didn’t realise at the time that I was turning to art as a way of coping when my mother had passed after a long battle with cancer. As I developed into womanhood I had deep insecurities about my self-worth, to the point where I had an eating disorder. A lot of the uncertainty about my own body and my own struggle with my body shape was reflected in the misshapen, oppressive feel in some of my works at the time.

carmeljenkin.com

carmeljenkin.com

VL

Carmel Jenkin

carmeljenkin.com

Now that I am older I still revisit that dark place sometimes with my work but I find there’s more of an acceptance that the end result will bring me to a place of certainty and permanence. The journey to get to that place is what I enjoy about my practice. My approach can be quite indecisive and ever-morphing. It’s incredibly therapeutic and rewarding to release an emotion and give it form, but equally rewarding when others identify with that emotion. Carmel Jenkin

carmeljenkin.com

VL

Carmel Jenkin

carmeljenkin.com

carmeljenkin.com

carmeljenkin.com