BEHIND THE SCENES:
BENEDICTE DELAY WITH JASON BUTLER
‘ONE ON ONE’
Exhibition at ArtHouse Jersey
14 April – 2 May 2022

JSVCprojects is proud to have participated with an evening dedicated to Jason Butler’s exhibition ‘One on One’ at ArtHouse Jersey, Capital House, on Wednesday, 20^th of April. Bénédicte Delay led a conversation with the artist about his new works, writing in particular:

Soft hues of turquoise, pink and white draw us towards Jason Butler’s new series of abstract paintings and invite us to take a longer look at them. We can feel depth behind the surface. These paintings are not exactly sweet, we can see dark lines. Tensions in the background indicate that they are not exactly quiet either.
These very tensions, the gaps between what is there and what escapes to us, are what hold the compositions together.

These new paintings are an invitation to a sensory experience, visual, tactile, even musical: they remind us of the gentleness of sunset skies, of changing atmospheres, of fog, of the radiation of light. The powdery white veil across the painting seems as gentle as air, the way the different elements of the composition interact create a gentle pulsation, a rhythm, a common tone.

The delicacy of the palette is reminiscent of Fra Angelico’s works while the shimmering surface and materiality of the painting brings to mind Claude Monet’s paintings.

Nowadays, there is a tendency to discount beauty, however, beauty is a condition that is hard won, that is difficult to achieve. Beauty, as gentleness, is not given and needs to be cultivated.

Jason Butler started as a figurative painter; over the past couple of years, he has worked hard to liberate himself from figuration, from his ego to give way to a sensory celebration of the world around him.

Bénédicte Delay, Director at JSVCprojects

Jason Butler, ‘One on One’
Solo show at ArtHouse Jersey
Capital House
8 Church Street
JE2 3NN Saint Helier
Jersey

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