Andrea Jordan - painter
Andrea graduated in Fine Arts with Honours, majoring in Painting, from the University of Tasmania in 2002. She is currently completing studies on the techniques of the old masters with the Charlie Sheard Studio School in Sydney.
The paintings in this exhibition are in part an exploration of optics, with an extremely limited palette of two colours and white producing a surprising and subtle range of hues.
Andrea’s subject matter to date has always been figurative; always introspective. The paintings might at first be thought of as portraits, but the intention is to explore states of mind that are universal, independent of personality or status.
The choice of children as models is a response to their lack of constraint in expression - their open truth. The subject of Red Girl 4, the one adolescent exception, exhibits a worldly self-awareness and a pleasing but masking presentation, indicative of greater maturity, that is absent in most children.
Common to all of these paintings is that the vulnerability, uncertainty, determination and defiance they reveal are within us all.
