Phenomenon Violet Span

The successive and consecutive phenomena that Paul Jenkins gives us to dream and to live in the chromatic, multi-toned exultation of his paintings, are conceived with great acuity through the conscious deliberation of a painter and a man nourished by numerous culture…It could be said that Jenkins’ painting reveals a harmonious conjunction of elements from the most austere European rationalism, that of Newton and Kant, and of occult elements charged with magic and warranting incantation, elements for which the divine, in no way, signifies the omnipresence and omnipotence of a single God.
-André Verdet, “Paul Jenkins Becoming,” in Paul Jeniins: Broken Prism, Paris, 1989, p. 13.