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Frohwerk, Jennifer
Jennifer Frohwerk is a fine artist based in Seattle, WA. Originally from Thousand Oaks, CA, and Cincinnati, OH, she earned a Fine Arts degree from Indiana University, with continued studies at Gage Academy of Art.
Frohwerk creates representational oil paintings. She works en plein air and with live models. Her compositions use fabrics and patterns to create depth, movement, and interaction between subject and environment. Her subjects are figures, portraits, and urban landscapes.
Her works have been featured at The Fountainhead Gallery, the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle Pacific University, and Collective Visions Gallery. Her illustrations have been published in a children’s book, The Rainbow Tiger.
Phone: (206)491-3130
e-mail: studio@jenniferfrohwerk.com
Her artwork can be viewed on her website: www.jenniferfrohwerk.com.
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Jennifer Frohwerk is a fine artist based in Seattle, WA. Originally from Thousand Oaks, CA, and Cincinnati, OH, she earned a Fine Arts degree from Indiana University, with continued studies at Gage Academy of Art.
Frohwerk creates representational oil paintings. She works en plein air and with live models. Her compositions use fabrics and patterns to create depth, movement, and interaction between subject and environment. Her subjects are figures, portraits, and urban landscapes.
Her works have been featured at The Fountainhead Gallery, the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle Pacific University, and Collective Visions Gallery. Her illustrations have been published in a children’s book, The Rainbow Tiger.
Phone: (206)491-3130
e-mail: studio@jenniferfrohwerk.com
Her artwork can be viewed on her website: www.jenniferfrohwerk.com.
http://www.jenniferfrohwerk.com
Rumplestiltskin Chair
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Once upon a time, there lived a miller who wished to gain favor with the king. He boasted that his daughter could spin straw into gold! The king was intrigued and ordered the peasant girl to the tower to create gold by morning. Alas, her father’s story was not true! The girl sat down on the bed of straw to weep. Soon, a mysterious man appeared who offered to spin the gold. Thus, for three nights, he helped her create the gold in return for her only worldly possessions. By the third night, the king was so pleased with her talent that he took the girl to be his queen. When she gave birth to the king’s child the next year, the weaver crept back to the castle… for the girl had foolishly promised him her first born child. This trickster would only let the queen out of her agreement if she impossibly figured out his peculiar name. She searched the kingdom, high and low, field and forest, to find his name – Rumpelstiltskin.
The Rumpelstiltskin chair represents the classical fairytale, with the relationships of the sinister Rumpelstiltskin, the peasant girl, and the king. The gold lace is a vintage pattern, crocheted to weave among the characters in the narrative. The chair is about the true value of our most precious possessions. It represents those magical people who create riches out of everyday objects, as the NW Furniture Bank repurposes furniture to change lives.
