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VISIONARY REVUE PARIS - SPRING 2003

ESEDRA PHOENIX
FOUNTAIN 1982
1987

The years of Maturity were also marked by a
whole series of Fountain paintings. Finally, the
fountains of Rome which he had first sketched with
Diana in their travels through Italy forty years ago
explode in abundance. What fascinated the artist
above all was the play of water through air and light
and over stone. The element of water in all its fluid
forms has become a painterly challenge, and he
renders its movement with absolute mastery.
But the other elements are not forgotten. His
Phoenix (1982) is more than just a symbolic picture
of death and rebirth - the phoenix which immolates
itself in the fire and arises reborn from the ashes.
The notebooks reveal the painstaking efforts which
Johfra took to render in paint the glowing,
undulating movement of fire.
THE RECONCILIATION OF TITANIA AND OBERON
(1994)
(De verzoening tussen Titania en Oberon)
Similarly, the rich verdure of vine and vegetation
invades almost all of his works from this period. A
fine example, aside from the earlier ones of Pan or
the Self Portrait as a Faun, is The Reconciliation of
Titania and Oberon (1994). This is the apex of a
whole series of Elf paintings, which examines the
gnomes, fairies, and woodsprites in their own
element. The mushrooms, ferns, ivy and rocks are
all rendered with loving attention to the marvellous
shapes and patterns which emerge from the earth.

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