2007 - Jan Esmann's figurative paintings

My works are deeply spiritual. Apparently they contain pain and suffering, but really they are about the moment when the ego gives up and you open to something higher. All my works depict the moment when you have just given up and the spiritual is just about to enter. In this moment there is a longing for the divine, for the true Self. I depict the small self and it's pathetic urge to remain in control and I usually depict it in the moment when control has just been lost and a vision of the true Self is dawning.
Thirteen Rebeccas, 130 x 170 cm	Detail	Study for Rebecca, 100 x 130 cm
Three Healers, 130 x 170 cm	Detail	Untitled, 115 x 150 cm.

Vicious Circle, 150 x 180 cm	Untitled, 100 x 140 cm	Entangled Couple, 110 x 150 cm
Cecilies Dilemma, 150 x 115 cm	Untitled, 100 x 80 cm	Untitled, 100 x 80 cm
Untitled, 80 x 110 cm	Untitled, 80 x 110 cm	Untitled, 130 x 120 cm
Untitled, 100 x 80 cm	Untitled, 100 x 80 cm	Untitled, 110 x 70 cm
Untitled, 90 x 70 cm	Untitled, 100 x 80 cm	Untitled, 80 x 60 cm
Untitled, 100 x 100 cm	Study, 50 x 50 cm	Untitled, 60 x 50 cm
Untitled, 60 x 50 cm	Untitled, 50 x 50 cm	Untitled, 60 x 50 cm
Contrapunctus, 115 x 150 cm.	Detail of left image

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