User:Deborah Jolly

DEBORAH JOLLY, an Artist using the 'nom de plume' HAROB, is nurturing a growing following with her Fresh Pure Art. She paints from, and resides in, her Caledon, Ontario, (CANADA) home with her husband and two beautiful sons. "Painting as HAROB, allows me to paint from a truly authentic place of emotive release, with minimal judgement and reserve; it just feels right for me, although I recognize that it may cause confusion for some.' Each time she descends to her basement studio, JOLLY prepares to access internal depths in her process with immense trust, discretionary reticence, and presence of unfathomable spirit.  When asked what type of artist she is, JOLLY struggles with committing to particular genre, preferring not to confine herself to any such self-imposed labels, for fear of 'losing her truth or limiting her creative output.'

ARTIST BIO | HAROB is an Artist who offers a fresh approach, and a vibrant voice, to the shooting star moments of joy and sadness we all share using puddles of paint, her hands, palette knives, and the occasional brush. With naive confidence and an intuitive boldness, HAROB drags, pushes, scratches, rubs, drips, and removes paint, uniting inner emotions and colour, and building a genuine story with oil and canvas. HAROB's works tempt you; dare you, to come closer, to reach out, and to touch them. A member of the Art Society of King, and a neophyte to the world of art, HAROB has been nurturing an attentive and responsive audience well beyond her expectations in her inaugural year.

ARTIST STATEMENT | With emotive compositions, based on a foundation of light, HAROB's paintings represent a realization, a truth, in varying degrees of simultaneous, reflective awareness and consciousness. Each painting embodies light and shadows, concurrently held within, and within reach, and are initiated with innate, innocent motivation. This pure harnessed emotion morphs into a rush of palatable colours, complex textures and rhythmic movement, fused with an intentional lack of discernible shapes, revealing a tremendously responsive body of work. "My painting is not from an easel; I prefer a firm, unwavering flat surface with no movement - perhaps control? - and while I like a solid surface and and two feet on the ground, my body is ever-flowing, moving with my palette knives, rollers, fingers, and palms, as I add and subtract with repetitive movements, physically moving around my painting, not committing to which way is up until it reveals itself to me."

IN HER OWN WORDS | “I work with oils because, like humans, they are partially forgiving; their agreeable, yet fragile nature allows me to pause quietly, mindful of what needs to come to the surface and then continue without reservation or personal scrutiny, listening for the exact moment in which I am to change direction or simply finish with intent. Every canvas begins with understanding, of others and within, without judgment. When we connect, we share moments that induce emotion and it is precisely these flashes that are the principal influence for my painting.”

LITTLE KNOWN FACT | JOLLY is not one to waste paint, but 'uses plenty', and she has, since her first painting, carried forward paint from one canvas to the next, be it enough for an entire underlay, or a minuscule wisp in a cloud or rush of still water. This unbroken, underlying, continuance gives connection between each piece, conveying an ongoing process and internal evolution of JOLLY's works, that are further grounded in connections of self through others. "It is through a mirror of those that I am surrounded by that I see the many facets that I am, and those connections are revealed in each piece individually and yet still connected with with the overall, or underlying, continuance."