Sweet Garden, (ref: 1021), oil painting by Jelila, 26" x 24" approx, oil on canvas.

The artist explains: 'This medium sized painting, Sweet Garden, is about a relationship. The couple are together in a garden, and surrounded by orange circles - these are the oranges that were usually in a bowl on the table; they are also areas of their lives that may be flowering, and may or may not overlap congruently!'

Jelila's expressionist paintings capture the feeling of the moments in her life, as well as telling some of their story with the symbolic shapes and objects included in the painting.
Loosely painted and free, symbolic and ith an advanced sense of colour and shape, Jelila's artistic influences include Picasso and Modigliani.