Jane Sullivan - "Harbour view" Solo art exhibition - a-n The Artists Information Company

Venue: Laine & Co Art Gallery
Starts: Thursday, August 2, 2012
Ends: Sunday, August 19, 2012
Address: 122 Victoria Rd Scarborough North Yorkshire YO11 1SL
Location: Yorkshire

“Painting allows me to reflect and reinvent the things I see, not to imitate reality but to conceive and create a new reality as a painting” Jane Sullivan’s paintings are produced through observation of the real world which is reduced and simplified into geometric forms. Believing colours of equal luminance are read as joyful, Sullivan uses bright high key colours in an arbitrary way to express herself more forcibly. Her imagination and the paint transform & dictate the overall outcome. Using this implementation of a set of self imposed rules and objectives she uses the physical immediacy of the flat geometric form, to convey an abstract reality out of the ordinary and every day.

Janilaine Mainprize

My art is an outcome of learning from and translating the things that I see, feel and find both physically and emotionally often discovered when out and about.Â I combine and recycle mundane and found objects, especially cloth and ephemera alongside varied art disciplines to gain greater dimension and depth.

I am interested in how the fragility of my environment resonates with my personal experiences. I am constantly surprised by the links I find between these materials and how they evoke emotions and memories for the viewer or myself.

Combining mixed media alongside found objects enables me to explore these connections and create a personal response. The colours I choose are predominantly neutral and subtle emphasizing and highlighting shape, texture and marks, the outcome frequently resulting in assemblage, sculptural and relief pieces. The challenge of bringing together different elements is often a journey on its own.

My awareness of and relationship with my surroundings is very important to both my work and to me and through these connections I seek to create and share new or renewed interpretations. I involve its previous life and history and try to recall distant memories by re-visiting forgotten times then re-connect and re-create to share in the present. I feel that by putting something into a new context I will lead the viewer to hopefully relate with it, re-evaluate and perhaps appreciate it.

The ever-changing sense of time, memory and the shifting of values fascinates me.....as a result of these small yet unique discoveries I unearth a little more of myself.