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Jen Wink Hays ”I didn’t hold a paintbrush until I was in college. One day I just felt ready to make art again.” - Jen Wink Hays, Artist. Jen Wink Hays fell in love with art while at ‘Barnard College’ and pursued the practice full-time after graduating, before pivoting into a successful graphic design career and then again into school administration. Wink Hays is a founding partner of New York’s ‘Blue School’ a model of progressive education. What surfaced in her painting was a clear, visual language rooted in abstraction. Colour and shape both natural and manufactured dominate her work and the juxtaposition between them is an endless source of fascination for her. “I like putting synthetic, trippy colour moments and sharper man-made forms, like a neon orange traffic cone, in the middle of stuff that feels more organic and seeing how they inhabit the same space. That sort of interruption thrills me.” #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #words #pictures #neon #urchin #jenwinkhays #artist #astraction #form #aboriginaldreamings #tylerhays #space #colour #blueschool (at Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4PXHfAB7Cy/?igshid=8yszltwqsw39

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Jen Wink Hays “I am originally from a beautiful, small town in coastal Maine where I experienced a salty-air childhood directly from the pages of a Robert McCloskey book. I moved to New York City as a teenager to attend Barnard College and have somehow lived in big cities ever since,” - Jen Wink Hays, Artist. Jen Wink Hays paints with the canvas flat on her studio table, peering down into its emergent world like a bird in the sky. Playful and beguiling her paintings and works on paper induce a sense of wonder, curiosity and even elation. Certain aspects of her work draw parallels with the Dreamings of Aboriginal artists, recalling memories of their native landscape through naive mapping. The term is used to describe relations and balance between the spiritual, natural and moral elements of the world. One might imagine she is channelling memories from her childhood whilst working from her studio in Pennsylvania near the home which she shares with her husband artist Tyler Hays and their children. Unlike Aboriginal Dreamings which call a specific terrain to mind, these biomorphic forms are brought forth unconsciously in a kind surrealist automatism – one that channels an inner state rather than any specific place. Hays begins each new work from this unselfconscious position: each mark on the canvas informs the next, giving a rhythm and flow to the work and a sense of organic growth. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #words #pictures #neon #urchin #jenwinkhays #artist #astraction #form #aboriginaldreamings #tylerhays #space #colour #blueschool (at Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4PXBQ1hylc/?igshid=1ixfbu953hhh1

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Jen Wink Hays Jen Wink Hays’ use of space and colour reflects her appreciation of Milton Avery’s subtle colour geometries and Helen Frankenthaler’s luminous, almost inhabitable fields of soaked pigment. Raised in Maine and currently living in Philadelphia, Hays’ forms — dispersed in expanses that both surround and unite them — can be seen to reference both the open field she walked between her house and her grandparents’ in Maine as a child and the urban landscape that surrounds individual buildings in Philadelphia. In Hays’ painting ‘Dreams and Things’ marigold-yellow polygons and orbs of spring green radiate from beneath a subtle field of gray-pink. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #words #pictures #neon #urchin #jenwinkhays #artist #astraction #form #aboriginaldreamings #tylerhays #space #colour #blueschool (at Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4PW5lQBdxL/?igshid=6az35parhnm