Jo Ellen Van Ouwerkerk

CONTEMPORARY SURREALIST PAINTER

We see something original and unpredictable within Jo Ellen Van Ouwerkerk’s paintings. There is a sensual, mystical quality to her pictures. She touches on the old and makes it contemporary. It is as if her women travel through time and are ageless. People universally respond to Jo Ellen’s work through the subject’s eye contact. Her women are sirens drawing us into their individual situation. She provokes the viewer. Her characters are seen for the one frame of their story, and her vision broadens our reference for normal. We follow marvelously entranced in their personal and curious situations.