Therapeutically speaking…

Jeanne Bessette’s two paintings on display at VAE’s storefront Exchange Gallery deal with the intuitive but also contain her explorations of the primal essence of things.  You get the sense that Bessette’s work is a metaphysical exercise ongoing somewhere in the deep layers and glazes of her images. I’m not quite sure how successful the therapeutic part of her journey is, but the surfaces of her canvases are certainly intriguing though I wonder if pared down from the dizzying grids, hazes and varieties of smoky atmospherics  they would be even more powerful.