Bernd Jansons is an Australian artist with a body of work now exceeding 1500 artworks, 80 of which are known to have found their way into and onto private collections and walls. With over 40 exhibitions to date, in addition to being on display in his own (Event Horizon) gallery, his work has been shown in galleries and exhibitions in Australia in Sydney, Melbourne, the Gold Coast and regional New South Wales, and internationally in Montreal, Guangzhou, New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Heavily influenced by two major art movements of the early to middle twentieth century; German Expressionism and American Abstract Expressionism, Bernd approaches art primarily as a visual language where the image is synthesised from the picture elements in the same way a story is synthesised from natural language elements. Form, texture and colour become pixel constructs. Stimulus and perception combine to construct meaning. The image is considered in its own right, for its own sake, as stimulus, and as perceived narrative shifting from moment to moment, from person to person.
He freely admits the work tends to be diverse in subject, style and technique. “This is fine by me. It’s deliberate. My purpose is to give birth to individual images and each of these is driven by its own unique DNA imprint which governs its development. And, if they are all different, I find that infinitely more satisfying than pumping out endless sets of clones”.