Jane Fairhurst
www.janefairhurst.co.uk
@jane.fairhurst
Statement:
I’m an artist based in the North West of UK working from my studio at Cross Street Arts, Wigan for over twenty years. On leaving school I studied at Liverpool College of Art and in 2010 I returned and gained an MFA with distinction. During my 30 years as a practicing artist I have worked across a range of media and since 2017 I have focused solely upon my painting practice with the intention of studying and understanding the medium through discourse and practice and with a view to producing fresh and more considered work that really stretches me as an artist.
My Protective Amulet series are painted in oil paint over black gesso’d Limewood boards. Negotiating the placing of paint, marks and patterns within shapes I aim to create solid looking forms on the flat picture surface. The subject matter in my Protective Amulet paintings conforms to a symbolic language found across the world and throughout history. As objects of agency amulets offer protection from negative forces as intricately beautiful artefacts that conform to a set of rules; asymmetry, twisting lines, reflective surfaces, random patterns, bright and gaudy colours, juxtaposed decorations, spots and stripes. The resulting paintings, whilst possessing an undeniable sculptural resonance, have developed into images in which I am interrogating the possibilities of colour, light, pattern and form. I am finding new ways to interpret cloth and to create pictorial harmony through rhythm and repetition. Whilst the amulet remains extant other devices and iconography have replaced them thus nothing has changed and everything has changed.
www.janefairhurst.co.uk
@jane.fairhurst
Statement:
I’m an artist based in the North West of UK working from my studio at Cross Street Arts, Wigan for over twenty years. On leaving school I studied at Liverpool College of Art and in 2010 I returned and gained an MFA with distinction. During my 30 years as a practicing artist I have worked across a range of media and since 2017 I have focused solely upon my painting practice with the intention of studying and understanding the medium through discourse and practice and with a view to producing fresh and more considered work that really stretches me as an artist.
My Protective Amulet series are painted in oil paint over black gesso’d Limewood boards. Negotiating the placing of paint, marks and patterns within shapes I aim to create solid looking forms on the flat picture surface. The subject matter in my Protective Amulet paintings conforms to a symbolic language found across the world and throughout history. As objects of agency amulets offer protection from negative forces as intricately beautiful artefacts that conform to a set of rules; asymmetry, twisting lines, reflective surfaces, random patterns, bright and gaudy colours, juxtaposed decorations, spots and stripes. The resulting paintings, whilst possessing an undeniable sculptural resonance, have developed into images in which I am interrogating the possibilities of colour, light, pattern and form. I am finding new ways to interpret cloth and to create pictorial harmony through rhythm and repetition. Whilst the amulet remains extant other devices and iconography have replaced them thus nothing has changed and everything has changed.
'Protective Amulet 1'
30 x 20cm
Oil on gesso'd Limewood board
2019
30 x 20cm
Oil on gesso'd Limewood board
2019