Location: Canada
Artist Biography
Sarah Jane has pursued her artistic interests since 1995. Mostly self-taught, she has been inspired by the scenic communities where she has lived which include Gloucester, MA; Sackville, NB; her birthplace St. John’s NL and her current home in Fall River, NS.
She has successfully exhibited in galleries across Nova Scotia, and is currently exhibiting in Art Sales and Rental Gallery, NS. She is delighted with the opportunity to be showing in St. John’s as a visiting artist at The Peter Lewis Gallery. Sarah Jane continues to be inspired by her involvement in local art groups, and her volunteer work at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. She is featured in ‘From Land and Sea, Nova Scotia Contemporary Landscape Artists’, (Nimbus Publishing, 2009)
Atlantic Canada’s romantic landscape and wild beauty has inspired me for over 20 years. Our divers forests, meandering brooks, waterfalls and change of season provide endless inspiration to me. These elements of nature in a kaleidoscopic environment are my primary interest. Motion and mystique are created through deliberate entanglements of brushstrokes, rich colour contrast, the chance effect of impasto, and the innate luminosity of oil paint. Painting alla prima allows every painting to exude it’s own energy and excitement. I want viewers to escape, even for a brief moment, into my romantic world.
“And we Danced, 20x30, oil”
“One Fine Day, 22x28, oil”
“Cool Running, 30x40, oil”
