Articles about Jenny Floravita's Paintings

Published in English & Spanish by Coral Gables International Art Center, 2002
The watercolor medium conjures up thoughts of fluid tones and soft shadows. Nevertheless, using a specialized technique, CORAL GABLES INTERNATIONAL ART CENTER represented artist JENNY FLORAVITA, has been able to perfect her use of watercolor, creating bold tropical colors reminiscent of fine oil paintings.
 
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area in California, FLORAVITA was surrounded, from a young age, by the arts. Born to a mother who is a violinist and pianist and father who works as a photographer and writer, she was able to begin developing her artistic skills at a very young age. She remembers that her “mother started teaching me to draw at four years old. She would sit with my brother and myself and work with our technique.”
 
Throughout her childhood and into adolescence, FLORAVITA was formally trained in California, at schools such as University of California, Santa Cruz and constantly worked at developing a signature style. She was successful in doing this when she began to alter the way in which she used watercolors. She explains: “I am not a typical watercolor painter. I layer as many as fifteen times or more in certain areas and often my paintings become very saturated in color. This can give them the look of fine oils.”
 
JENNY FLORAVITA’S theory on art: “My work tells the story of my life and each painting has meaning in my development as an artists and human being because I am constantly learning from my art.”