Jane Canfield | Mt. Banks | SOLD
Mt.Banks | 2017/18
Mixed media on canvas
76.5 x 76.5 cm
Signed verso
Victorian Ash Box Frame
FINALIST : Cowra Regional Gallery, Calleen Art Award
SOLD
BIO
Jane Canfield
"As I write, I am looking out the window of my 1850’s Sandstone Inn, West of the Blue Mountains. It’s a view that must have changed a lot since those early days of Cobb & Co coaches and candlelight, but a constant is a rolling hillside with changing light, rain, and the seasons playing across the valley. As artist Margaret Olley said ‘It’s all about the light’ .
I hope my work reveals my love of life and tranquility that I often feel either at home in the studio, or if I am travelling, finding inspiration in the landscape in my 1974 VW Kombi ‘Dot’ with my little dogs.
I constantly strive for reduction and simplification in my work, not reproducing exactly what I see, but my version of it, but I do need to have ‘seen’ it to be inspired. These days I am layering my work more and rubbing back, using a reduced colour palette and tonalism."
Jane Canfield was born in New Zealand (Christchurch) in 1967 and grew up in an artistic family, with her father, Tony Canfield a collected artist, inventor, motor mechanic and designer. Every weekend they would go camping and her Dad would be sketching and painting. This love of working in nature has followed her to this day… and her love of classic cars…
Jane was accepted at an early age to Graphic Design College (Randwick TAFE, Sydney 1984) and spent 20 years working in the industry, but always drew and painted, encouraged by family. She first came to notice for her strong lino cut prints but it was not until her Dad passed away in 2004 that she became a full time artist.
She is also a WIRES volunteer (particularly interested in Flying Foxes and Bats) and is one of the founding volunteer directors on the Katoomba & Upper Blue Mountains Bendigo Community Bank Branch which returns thousands of dollars every year to not-for-profit and community groups in the region.
