b-Loud: Jasmine Ronel: Paint with Passion

// March 17th, 2010 // b-loud // Lawrence

Israel-based Jasmine has created a diverse body of work incorporating photography, printing, painting and drawing, using a variety of media. The work has a graphical influence but her techniques and processes give each image a gripping tactility. The subjects are always brewed in a mass of worked textures, layers, tender colour and present emotion. Her carved compositions follow three core themes: woman, flower and abstraction. To better understand this talented artist, read on.

b-Loud!

b-uncut: What was your very first artwork?

When I was 3 years old, I took a decision to be a painter. The very first artwork of mine as an ‘artist to be’ was “an angry flower”, 1973, Gouache on paper, 30×20 cm.
20 years later – I am married and a young mother, drawing and paintings are way off my mind ..then.. a friend came from New York with a gift - fluorescent acrylics  – all bright colors in small beautiful containers. I treasured the gift and saved it to use on a special occasion. 3 years passed by and one day I found those fluorescent acrylics, most of them dried out… It was then that I decided to go back to paint, and started to explore canvases and papers, media and compositions.
The first artwork as a grown up was “Falling” 1996, mixed media on canvas, 60×80 cm. Translation: “I’m jumping from immense height , to a wide open void underneath, i’m falling and falling and falling, until I hit sobriety.”

b-uncut: Describe the piece you love the most—why?
This is a tough one. I have a few that I consider as favorites… but if I have to choose one, now – it would be “The Greek” 2001. it’s a small piece, which I think is full of energy and movement although it’s high density layers and mediums.

b-uncut: What are your methods? Your inspirations?
My mode of work includes the use of diverse and complex techniques, spanning a wide range of materials and media: photography, computer processing, printing spraying, high-gloss enamel paints, acrylics, glass paints, watercolors, oils, felt-tip pens and pencils. The canvas is processed in stages, via accumulated layers that maintain intricate interrelations of construction and destruction, mending and erasing.
Whether the emerging image has ascribed value or not, the painting’s true theme is in fact painting. The work transpires as a private outcome of the path towards that particular painting: the trail of its drippings, the mass of its strata and the depth of its insights.
Inspiration comes from the act itself, combined with the issues that matter at the time, usually following my three main issues – woman, flower and abstract.

b-uncut: What did it take to make it to where you are now?
My friend Ilgvars says there is only room for one on top of the mountain. Climbing up my mountain took some craziness, loneliness, dreams, frustration and the love of the act of painting.

b-uncut: Do you make a living from your artwork?
I have been a graphic designer for 20 years now. Painting is a huge bonus for me: when I actually paint  (no clients, no logos, no rules), when someone else loves it, and when I sell it. Israel is a difficult market for that matter. Sadly, most artists here can’t make a living out from art.

b-uncut: Who has helped you along the way?
Tsibi Geva , a great Israeli artist, Yossi Alony my photographer, The Internet viewers which gave me a lot of comfort, and all the people that bought my paintings…. it helps.

b-uncut: What 5 artists (dead or alive) would you invite for the ultimate dinner party?
For the next dinner party – Andy Warhol, Lou reed, Elizabeth Peyton, Marlene Dumas, and Laurie Anderson.


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b-uncut: Your favourite curse?
F**K.

b-uncut: Qualities a man needs to seduce you and the flaws that will repel you?
Humor, good company , great in kitchen, loves sex seduces me.
Stupid, cheap, spoiled and self-centered repels me.

b-uncut: Your biggest (albeit endearing) flaw?
Too kind.

b-uncut: Your parents advice you should have followed, but didn’t?
I follow my own advice.

b-uncut: The power you wish you had?
The ability to market myself. my art.

b-uncut: Who would you chose to rule the world?
Let love rule.

b-uncut: Favourite ice-cream?
Coffee.

b-Honest!

b-uncut: Where do you see yourself in…..

One month? – in my little studio and in google…
One year? – in my studio and some galleries
One decade? – in my big new studio, some galleries and museums too.

  • aloni
    nothing compare 2 u babe
  • This is fun! cheeeers
  • brother raz
    AMAZING!
    So much talent
  • avivabeigel
    love your works
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