Phuong Nguyen “Jacquell” is an accidental Vietnamese self-taught watercolorist who was born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam and after spending many years abroad, she is now settled in Bologna, Italy.
Each of her works is a narration of coexistence and solitude, of nourishment and destruction, of morbidity and eternity. Human, as represented by the female body in her paintings, plays a vital role - the center piece that ties all other earthling elements together. Set in a dark yet poetic world, her artworks embrace her oriental origin and signify the harmony between human and nature and how such coexistence embodies certain subtle, clandestine messages.
