JANE GALLOWAY
For 25 years Jane Galloway has made a name as a landscape painter and illustrator. She has designed many graphic print series for galleries and greeting cards as well as painting much loved images of Raglan and the Coromandel.
After 20 years the landscapes still require mental discipline and many hours to produce. She has consequently come to see completing them as an exercise which, while requiring certain skills, is not creatively fulfilling.
After 4 years study with an American tutor Jane feels she has begun to find a new voice with abstraction using her intuition to express a lifetime of experiences. This was the kind of work she began at art school many years ago.
Finding her own form of expression has involved a lot of experimentation. This means beginning a work without a preconceived idea of how it might look. Some of her work is about colour – learning how to mix it, harmonise it and use the paint. It’s also about composition – how to move the eye freely around a work using a variety of tones. The more Jane has learned the more she has been able to experiment, letting go of an outcome. Some pieces take days to “arrive” at a place she thinks is complete. Others can take half an hour. It’s as much about knowing when to stop. Part of the process is about trusting that having lived a life, you have something worth expressing.
At Artists at Work Gallery (which is also her studio) you are welcome to view the range of work Jane produces as well as work by other artists.
