Jane Denman Artist - Blog
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Meltdown - Our House is on Fire
Have you ever travelled to a place that made you so connected but you couldn’t say why? I did and then several things happened 30 years later to make me create a painting about it. Read the story -
Wonder how a painting can get to you? My first daunting delivery
Read how you can benefit from free shipping and my super framing deal which sort of came about from trying to get my head around this rather dull subject of shipping and delivery -
Colour and Protest - my new series of paintings
It has been very interesting from an artist point of view to follow climate protest marches over this last summer and just as interesting to see what the organisers would arrange and encourage to present a collective of people in a visual way. My latest series then focuses on calls to action and the use of colour.
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Dreamers
A short video where I complete this painting is in this blog post and, if you managed to get to read my last post then you may see a very tenuous theme emerging, one of slumber... -
Wake Up Call
A preoccupation of painting can be to keep external thoughts (other than painting) at bay. So circumstances such as world news inevitably filter in to my head when I am painting. -
Getting Picky
Sometimes there are too many things going on in a painting and recently I have started to realise this. For elements of a painting to work, at least for me, they need space to breathe. Too many colours, shapes, drips need attending to and this is how a lot of my time is taken up.
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Moving in and out of the heat
My attitude towards the heatwaves we now experience in the UK has changed over the past five years. Perhaps it comes with getting older and feeling the heat more but there is a slight trepidation -
A great reason for moving to this new website
Two fantastic reasons for my new website
Welcome to the new look website and although it is still being tweaked and changes implemented, I am pleased with how it looks. I do all of the website myself and changing from one company to another is never taken lightly ...read more
