Interview with Jeniffer Manning

The interview was relaxed in the quaint studio of Jennifer Manning. I asked to see her most recent paintings and she took out about 4 canvases. They were store bought and about 18"x24" in size. They immediately hit me with the sensation i get when i see an Edward Hopper. The were representational but the content is what struck me. One painting had a child playing bumper bowling with noone in sight. just a weird snapshot of a solitary figure. But it was the nondescript nature of the room or rather the alley that the action was taking place in.
There was another painting of a Christmas tree with the presents at toe. This is that moment before the disaster occurs when everyone rushes to their gifts as children. It is a frozen moment of the impartialness to manifest its profussion to the balcony of our final jump. It was also painted in muted colors as the precursoral painting style was in. The paintings capture a warmth and nostalgic feeling of youth and the awkwardness of it.
When i had asked Jen when she had started to paint she said not until recent years (appx. 3yrs) but she has been drawing since she has been able to hold a pencil. That maybe the greater of her strengths. I had not seen any drawings in her studio but i recal in the previous year we had been in a drawing class together and i remember admiring her work she made during that duration.
as far as her technical prowess with painting she seems pretty straight forward. she told me of the medium she had used ad i had made a few recommendations i could make for other mediums she might like to try.
The conversation digressed into film and she told me she was fond of japanese anime (i.e. Miyazaki for the most part was the conversation).We spoke briefly of music and then we reached a point where we realized the interview was exhausted for that moment so we parted ways.