About
I took up painting and went to college in 1995 and since then have been working as an artist and art tutor. My studio is based at the end of my very long garden at home.
My aim is to create dynamic, colour filled paintings and provide unique bespoke art pieces. I am now able to offer a new range of professional quality prints as well as originals for your space; a small painting for a niche space or perhaps that statement painting that will really make a room pop.
Choosing a painting that complements your home decor is not just wall decoration but very often a life and style choice.
As a figurative painter I tend to work to my own set projects. One of which involved contemporary dance. This project lasted for about 6 years, fuelling me as a painter as I watched dance in all its beautiful and passionate forms. For me the emotional, and extraordinary movements of the body in space are very inspirational. Often relying upon memory, my work re-imagined dance sequences that I experienced emotionally as well as visually.
In my paintings I work with a variety of media, especially water-based paints, to create worlds through drips, splashes, and rivulets of colour
For the dance project I worked with dancers, sketched at performances, and drew on photographic stills or video studies to enrich my practice.. Watching dancers on stage, I was intrigued by the physical space in which they moved, particularly the interplay between their bodies, the stage boundaries, theatrical lighting, and darkness. My work attempted to reinterpret these interactions through colour and abstraction, and expressed my intuitive and creative responses to dance.
As a long-time student of yoga, I have a keen personal and artistic interest in how the body moves. For me, dancers are akin to painters: using their bodies, they draw, incise, and push into space. The process of recreating their balletic movements is complicated, sometimes frustrating, and often challenging, but it is ultimately exhilarating.
I am creating new projects which are constantly evolving but always involve the figure. I hope you will stay in touch and keep up to date with occasional emails from me.
Jane Denman is a painter living in East Preston, West Sussex. Her painting style places figures in an abstract environment and she enjoys working in series. Jane works at home in her studio and studied BA Fine Art at Northbrook College, Worthing, graduating in 1999
Jane’s ambition is to paint stories that convey personal and perhaps collectively felt emotion. Jane collages found images to create new imagined worlds. Drawing is a big part of the process which then works alongside composing the storyline. Jane enjoys using fluid acrylics with thicker bodied acrylic on canvas and paper. Jane has a painting in Worthing Art Museum as part of their collection, has regularly exhibited at the Brighton Art Fair and has collectors in the UK and Europe.
Purchase and pay for Jane's paintings here online. Paintings are shipped by international courier from her studio in Sussex, England to Europe and America. You can view the shipping costs at the bottom of the page
View any painting online in your home using your mobile or mobile device, simply go to the painting you like and follow the instructions to view the painting.
New artist quality prints are being added to the website available on canvas (special request at time of writing) and on paper. Bespoke prints can be ordered by contacting Jane. All prints are created to the highest standard.
Prints are produced by photographing the original painting and are done by professional photographer and my partner Roy Matthews.
Order securely here online with full terms and conditions provided should the painting not be the perfect choice you will be given a full refund, see the exact terms and conditions (check out the T&C's at the bottom of the page).
