Brisbane
Jane creates a variety of retro paintings. She is mainly known for her “Pulp” paintings based on covers of cheap popular magazines of the 1930s to 50s. Other themes in her paintings are Wild West, traditional fairytales, and gothic horror stories. Jane’s paintings are in many private international art collections.
Artworks: 11
Jane creates a variety of retro artworks. Her “Pulp” paintings incorporate images from the covers of cheap popular magazines of the 1930s to 50s that were designed to titillate and excite their audiences. These covers used an illustrative or comic book style. Often Jane places the scared or startled cover model into an incongruous or surreal background. Another type of artwork that Jane does is “Wild West” paintings, where she appropriates movie stills of actors from classic Hollywood western movies of the 1940s and 50s and places the gun-toting protagonists in arid but beautiful desert landscapes. The mythology of the Wild West is based on the tough, self-reliant person who survives as best they can in the harsh and lawless frontier. A third type is Jane’s “Fairytale” paintings, which hark back to the traditional fairytales and myths such as Little Red Riding Hood, Dracula, and St George and the Dragon. Lastly, her “Hollywood Glamour” paintings use photos of glamourous Hollywood stars and place them against an exotic background.
Jane’s paintings capitalise on the vibrant clean colours and glossy nature of acrylic paints and gels, and subtly incorporate iridescent metallics and bright interference paints.
In the past decade Jane has sold hundreds of paintings worldwide, been a finalist in many art competitions, and exhibited in major Brisbane and Gold Coast galleries. Jane’s original paintings are included in many private international art collections.
EDUCATION
Brisbane Institute of Art
EXHIBITIONS
2018 – Hearts and Minds Gallery, Noosa Heads
2016 – Hillier and Skuse, Gold Coast
2015 – Brisbane Modern Art Gallery, Fortitude Valley
2015 – Percolator Gallery, Paddington
2015 – Hinge Gallery, Gold Coast
2014 – Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery, Gold Coast
2014 – Main Street Gallery, Montville
AWARDS
Finalist Rotary Art Spectacular 2023
Finalist Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Award 2014 to 2018
Finalist Rotary Art Spectacular 2015 to 2018
Finalist Moreton Bay Art Awards 2016, 2017
Finalist Stanthorpe Art Prize 2016
Finalist Minnawarra Art Awards 2016
Finalist Noosa Art Awards 2016
PUBLICITY
2015 Half page review by art critic Phil Brown in Extra in the Brisbane Courier Mail



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