Brooklyn artist selected to participate in prestigious Faberge ‘Big Egg Hunt’
As a child in the South, Jannell Turner would retreat to the woods and contemplate the world around her. As an adult in Brooklyn, those woods have been replaced by her Gowanus studio, but her paintings never stray too far from the forests of her childhood.
“In my work, I explore psychological emotions associated with being inside the woods,” says Turner, a 41-year-old mom who takes care of her kids by night and paints by day. “Enchantment, innocence and danger.”
Turner’s naturescapes also point to the environmental issues such as deforestation, climate change and preservation.
She is also using a nature-related theme – in this case, an enchanted forest scene – in a giant egg she has created as part of New York’s largest and most prominent public art events: The 2014 Fabergé Big Egg Hunt in New York.