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Honora Jacob
H
onora Jacob has been drawn to paint ever since she was a child: “I love how it can drip and flow,” she says, “or be as thick as icing on a cake.” This love for her medium illuminates Jacob’s work, each piece as vibrant as the women who inspire it. One of Jacob’s recent paintings, entitled “Enigmatic Memory of Love,” features a woman draped in a striking red dress. Faceless, her head enveloped in a cloud of delicate butterflies, the woman offers the viewer a stunning window into the female psyche: behind the painting’s soft, eloquent lines lies a rich landscape of symbolism, exploring the metamorphoses that occur in the many stages of a woman’s life, from puberty to childbearing. When Jacob first began to paint professionally, these female figures served as an expression of her own narrative, but in her recent work, the largely faceless women have come to represent the collective female experience. Elusive yet alive with activity, the butterflies that flutter in and out of Jacob’s pieces, for example, illustrate the way women think, feel, remember and dream—an exercise in introspection that Jacob strives to evoke in the viewer. “I hope my work would call forth a personal memory, idea or emotion from each viewer,” Jacob says. “The artist places his or her intention into the work, but we all demand our own, unique histories be heard.” Honora Jacob’s paintings will be on display in a group exhibition at the Wally Workman Gallery from August 4th to September 1st. For more information on Jacob and her work, visit honorajacob.com. R. KELLEY
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image courtesy of Honora Jacob.
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