Buoyant and lyrical, the visions of Genevieve Esson are carried to realization in a flow of dancing electricity which embraces and bolsters the spirit of the denizens depicted. A wily legerdemain of implementation transfers a blithe and musing anima directly from the notions of the artist to the heart of the beholder.
A St. Louis, Missouri native with a B.A. in painting from Webster University, Esson has won awards for music album cover art and was
featured on the program cover for the Riverport Amphitheatre. She was selected to paint a lion for the University City Roaring Lions Project and had a painted lion statue in the Delmar Loop, Summer 2009. She has also had a piece of artwork published on the cover of Pathfinder Magazine for the May/June 2008 issue. Her artwork was featured in the November 2008 issue of Sauce magazine. Genevieve paints in acrylics and is also a mixed media artist. Locally, her paintings have been exhibited at the St. Louis Artists Guild, Art St. Louis, Soulard Art Market, the Randall Gallery, Richmond Heights Artists Group Shows, Cardeia’s Coffee House, The Soulard Coffee Garden, Hartford Coffee House, Crave Coffee House, Mystic Valley, Framations, St. Charles Spring Art Walk, Third & Fourth Annual Open Studio Tour sponsored by the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis and other venues. In New York, she exhibited at the Great Salt Marsh in Manhattan. She exhibits her artwork at festivals and fairs such as Earth Day, Spirit Seeker Expos, and the Pagan Picnic. Genevieve just completed her second painted lion statue in January 2010. She has recently been commissioned to paint a third one for University City. You may visit her web site at www.genevieveesson.webs.com.
"My art is an extension of my inner world. The subject matter is surreal and dream-like...The
environment reflected in some of my pieces is of a world with too much going on in it, becoming a myopic soup of chaos or strangeness...The tap estry of music is another theme running through my pictures, bringing with it an abundance of movement...The scope of the human mind is infinite, with boundless possibilities to be explored, which is what makes art so exciting..."