JANE EVERETT
Jane Everett grew up in Winnipeg and completed her Fine Arts degree at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Engaged in painting in oil on canvass, and drawing on Belgian linen with charcoal, graphite, and conte, her work reevaluates traditional materials and media with iconoclastic method. Her waterscape paintings verge on the abstract, using complex layerings of colour to render the undulating surface of water in an intricate study of light and form. Her large figure drawings on stretched linen communicate the kinesis of anatomical subjects through accomplished control of gestural line. For the past number of years she has lived in Western Canada, while her work is exhibited across the country in both private and public galleries, and held in corporate and private collections.
DRAWINGS:
In these works I indulge my love of drawing. I have developed a technique where I stretch and prepare linen with a transparent medium. This allows me to use the natural colour of the linen as my mid-tone and work up the pattern of lights and darks with oil wash, charcoal and conte so the form rises organically from the surface. To me, these works are about trammels, real and imagined, and the struggle to overcome them.
WATERSCAPES:
The memory of landscape and the way it is experienced is better expressed in reflection. By concentrating on the water’s surface I can explore the effects of light and colour in a pure and nearly abstract way. The details of the actual place and time can be submerged by compositional imperatives while remaining the inspiration for the work. I think of these pieces in musical terms as adagios, nocturnes and cantos. They are intended to be evocative rather than literal.
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