Sharon Appel fuses art with jazz. Her seascapes and landscapes sparkle, shimmer, and swirl, their idyllic subject matter inspired by the South Seas. Artists and curators describe her as a cross between Bonnard and Milton Avery, and evoking Signac, Seurat, Cross and Petitjean. Appel’s painting breaks new ground by bringing jazz and Latin rhythms into the visual. The music propels and directs the work: its creation, mood, structure, and patterning. In Appel’s words: “The paintings are a synesthetic reflection of the blissful confluence of wild, spectacular scenery, with wild, spectacular music, in an environment of total isolation and freedom, in far-flung, untouched, tropical nature.” She is represent- ed in Montreal by Galerie d’Arts Contemporains.
