top of page
To Soften
From the Slowing Down Time series - 2023
Pencil, acrylic paint and chalk pastel on canvas
12 x 12 inches
 
Please inquire for an alike commission by emailing: celeste@chanellejefferson.com
 

To Soften

C$485.00Price

  • We were told it isn’t safe to feel deeply or that we are too much. For many of us, we can pinpoint the time in our childhood when we decided it was safer to shut our light off.

    There is a superpower that comes with discovering you are a highly sensitive being. Allow it to lead you but not gain control over your life.

    ___________________________

    Can you crack the door open and begin to let your light shine again?

The Process

Each painting begins outside, directly in nature which allows me the opportunity to connect with what I'm drawing on a deeper level. Encapsulating its patterns, colours and healing energy onto the canvas. 

 

I start every one of my paintings with blind contour drawing (drawing without looking at the paper) and intuitively add chalk pastel and acrylic paint in layers until I feel the piece is complete. 

 

Just like nature, a plan is never made or followed. Instead, it is an intuitive dance between myself, the canvas and whatever nature has in store for us that day. 

 

I'm often told that my artwork instantly calms a space and offers its collectors a moment to re-connect to what's important to them. 

​

My hope is that this artwork brings you the same healing that nature has brought me as it hangs in your home

​

With love and gratitude, 

Chanelle 

bottom of page