EFJI is an artist who for a long time passionately experiences the reconciliation between earth, fire and water. In her quest for this symbiosis she reached a very personal style, making her work easy to recognize at all times. The bronze sculptures shown in this exhibition make ourselves desperately hover between the respect we show for forces attributed by primitive cultures on the one and the obvious humour with which she inspires these sculptures on the other side.   EFJI creates sculptures with a somewhat African inspiration. At times one would even wish oneself not to have that western down-to-earthness, so that one could believe in the presence of higher and spiritual forces, good ghosts or indefinable, healing vibrations, always positive and wholesome, because this "inspired" work of EFJI is never experienced as threatening, one feels at the most its innate authoritative self-consciousness.   For every art-form a solid technical foundation is indispensable, but this form of art also requires from the concerned artist a craving to explore. This is obviously the case with EFJI, witness the technical and colouring qualities she experiments with. It creates the different subtle tonalities that are so typical of her oeuvre. Photo: The Artist and the Queen Paola (Exhibition UFACSI European Parlement - Bruxelles, ©1997) [Biography - Efji [Francine Jernander] - 3Ko]

- Photo: L'artiste et la reine Paola à l'exposition UFACSI au Parlement européen à Bruxelles, ©1997 [Biography - Efji [Francine Jernander] - 1Ko - 2003]

- Exposition ; ; ; ; 1968-1975 ; ; Métiers d'art du Brabant ; ; ; 1974 ; ; Prix Alphonse Muller, Etterbeek (Premier Prix) ; ; ; 1975-1997 ; ; Administrations, firmes privées et particuliers ; ; ; 1991 ; ; Galerie l'Art du Temps, Verviers ; ; ; ; Salon ... [Biography - Efji [Francine Jernander] - 5Ko - 2003]

- ; Enfant et adolescente elle a cotoyé un volcan africain. Plus tard, elle s'est éprise des arts du feu. Elle est devenue céramiste et, détentrice du prix Muller, elle a fait son chemin en tant que sculpteur-céramiste. En raison de ses qualités elle a... [Biography - Efji [Francine Jernander] - 3Ko - 2003]

- EFJI ist eine Künstlerin, die seit Jahre leidenschaftlich die Versöhnung zwischen Erde, Feuer und Wasser erlebt. Mit der Arbeit an dieser Symbiose hat sie auch einen sehr persönlichen Stil gefunden, wodurch ihr Werk jederzeit leicht wiedererkannt wer... [Biography - Efji [Francine Jernander] - 3Ko - 2003]