Jost Geneviève

Geneviève Jost is a French artist, born in 1944 in Compiègne/France. In 1965 she settled in Quebec/Canada. There she discovers the primitive American painters and decides to become a painter. She is a self-taught artist. At the beginning of her artistic career, in the mid-1970s, she was mainly addressed by paintings on wood. She paints various consumer objects such as tobacco boxes and jewelry boxes. These boxes are decorated with floral motifs, landscapes or pendants, according to the tradition of Alsace. She exhibits her products at the Salon des Métiers d'Art in Montréal/Canada. She then briefly focuses on making jewelry and then fully focuses on painting on panels and wood fiber boards. The subjects she deals with are the family, vegetation and rural scenes. Later she painted a series of nudes and peaceful jungles where people and animals live together in perfect harmony. Geneviève Jost mainly paints with acrylic paint, but from 1955 she also paints with oil paint, so that she also starts painting in larger formats. The transparency effects of the oil paint also appeal to her. Her subjects evolve with them: the nudes are no longer landscape nudes, but have their own identity. G. Jost has developed a very personal visual language, which easily distinguishes her from other artists. She exhibits both nationally (Canada) and internationally (Germany, Israel, France, Belgium, the United States, Switzerland and Ivory Coast). (BT)