Artists
JANE HARRIS
In Jane Harris' paintings, lustrous forms emerge from a tightly controlled surface, giving an effect which is seductive, yet at the same time restrained. The use of metallic paint in her most recent work adds to the reflective qualities of the surface of her paintings.
Harris' paintings simultaneously reveal and conceal themselves. They operate in an arena somewhere between the abstract and representation. However, such terms only serve to describe the way the paintings look rather than what they do. As with elliptical forms of communication, they are both concise and obtuse. They aim to retain a sense of secrecy or privacy, an opaqueness that, although problematic and awkward, is both engaging and enjoyable. Harris recalls reductive tendencies of the art of the '60s by limiting her palette to just two or occasionally three colours in each painting, by her use of clearly defined and self-contained forms disposed according to a logical structure, and by her workmanlike, undemonstrative approach to paint application.
Jane Harris was born in Dorset in 1956. She studied at Bournemouth College of Art 1975-76, Camberwell School of Art 1976-77, Brighton Polytechnic 1977-79, the Slade School of Fine Art 1979-81 and Goldsmiths College 1989-91.
Harris' paintings simultaneously reveal and conceal themselves. They operate in an arena somewhere between the abstract and representation. However, such terms only serve to describe the way the paintings look rather than what they do. As with elliptical forms of communication, they are both concise and obtuse. They aim to retain a sense of secrecy or privacy, an opaqueness that, although problematic and awkward, is both engaging and enjoyable. Harris recalls reductive tendencies of the art of the '60s by limiting her palette to just two or occasionally three colours in each painting, by her use of clearly defined and self-contained forms disposed according to a logical structure, and by her workmanlike, undemonstrative approach to paint application.
Jane Harris was born in Dorset in 1956. She studied at Bournemouth College of Art 1975-76, Camberwell School of Art 1976-77, Brighton Polytechnic 1977-79, the Slade School of Fine Art 1979-81 and Goldsmiths College 1989-91.