2024
A fun and relaxed weekend in the beautiful country town of Birregurra, accompanied by ten fellow artists promoting the variety of creative talents in our region. Despite the weekend Not coinciding with our regular market, we had numerous visitors and plenty enough purchases to go around.
I had the opportunity to debut, in hard copy print, some of my digital works created using a sound editing program…….
And some fun new creatures created just for the day…..
This series of abstract paintings is inspired by the 12 elements of nature which includes earth, water, wind,fire, thunder, ice, force, time, flower, light, shadow, and moon. Each painting is a unique representation of the beauty and complexity of the natural world. Using a variety of colours, textures and shapes, they are an interpretation of the essence of these elements.
I believe that art has the power to evoke emotions and connect us to the world around us. Through my paintings I hope to inspire others to explore their own relationship with nature and find beauty in the world around them.
Jane Jenkin is a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, painting and digital mediums. Her atmospheric, sometimes playful work is an exploration into the natural world and the theories behind its structure and constant reformation. An attempt to imagine the creation of ecological worlds and futures from the condition of abundance and plenitude is often a feature of her work.
The Twelve Elements of Nature
Earth - the foundation of life representing stability, grounding and support. It is the soil and rocks we stand on, build homes from and grow crops in
Water - purity and fluidity, the flow of life and the power of change
Wind - the air we breathe, the sky above us. It is the element representing movement and change shaping the landscape around us
Fire - energy and transformation, the forces of life and death, creation and destruction. It provides warmth, light and cooking
Thunder - strength and power, the majestic forces of nature
Ice - purity and stillness. It represents the frozen moments of time captured in its crystalline structure and the fragility of life
Force - the underlying power that flows through all things, the energy that gives life to everything in the universe
Time - the dimension that governs our existence our past, present and future
Flower - a symbol of beauty and renewal, cycles of life and regeneration
Shadow - the hidden parts of ourselves and the world around us, representing the mysteries we cannot see
Light - the power of knowledge to illuminate ourselves and enrich understanding
Moon - mystery and magic, our connection to the universe
Earth Oil on Canvas 55 x 65cm framed $250 (sold)
Ice Oil on canvas 65 x 55cm framed $450
Flower (sold)
Light Oil on canvas 122 x 91cm unframed $1200
Force I
Oil on canvas
20 x 25.5cm $150
Force II Oil on canvas
20 x 25.5cm $150 (sold)
Thunder (sold)
Wind (sold)
Moon Oil on canvas 30 x 40.5cm $180 (sold)
Time Oil on canvas 35 x 45cm framed $250 (sold)
Line of Flight
2022
Formation
2021
oil on linen
50.8cm x 76.2cm
(sold)
Morphogenesis means the generation of form. In the formation of landforms and other structures it describes the effects of outside forces such as wind and water. It is also intrinsic to the development of the forms of living organisms via chemical reactions. Formation as a grouping or cluster of elements belonging together prompted my choice of the sting ray. Their spiritual meaning is one of adaptability, manoeuvrability, sensitivity, and the ability to blend into their environment. Projects by artist Trevor Paglan regarding space junk, his works in Afghanistan, the amount of energy consumed by our digital technologies and the influences that has upon our environment has been influential in this work. The concept of ‘more-than-human, meaning the conjoining spheres of human, non-human, living, and nonliving existences redefining our sense of ‘we’’, addresses the need to secure the rights of the natural environment, equal to our own economic and political values and as intrinsic to our own future habitation of this planet. This is a work of the imagination, combining the concept of future possible hybridisation of species with the environmental concerns of our present.
Line Of Flight
2022
projected digital image, animated hologram fan
Jane Jenkin is a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, painting, and digital mediums. Her
atmospheric, sometimes playful work is an exploration into the natural world and the theories behind
its structure and constant reformation. Relating these to the concepts surrounding Abundance is a
feature of her latest work. Abundance in this instance means more diverse and autonomous forms of
life and ways of living together. Inspired by the scientific exploration into Xenobots, cell clumps that
behave like tiny organisms in their own right, she has created imagery suggestive of pioneer species. AI
is used to program new behaviours into these self-organising organisms by rearranging their
morphology rather than their genes to increase the potential for their longevity and mutation into a
new species.
With the use of an open source sound editing program new landscapes are made combining two or
more original photographs. One final image has been used to create a multi-faceted landscape full of
potential for new life. A prefabricated hologram fan has been attached to view an animation hand
drawn using Procreate over this image suggestive of the continuing evolution and adaption of the
natural environment including the potential intervention of the human hand.
Excerpt hologram animation
Further images printed in variable sizes on perspex
Of
The
Refrain
Oil on Canvas
91.4 x 121.8cm
Refrains that gather forces, either at the centre of a territory, or in order to go beyond it. Rhythms that are the landing, splashdown or take off - those things between. Pioneer species too, those hardy species that are the first to colonise a barren and arid landscape, or those places that were previously diverse and have been disrupted, perhaps by human hand, depicted here as the jellyfish, suspended, and drifting as in a water column. Abundance is the cultivation of respect for the creative energy of the universe, the tendency of nature and of life to manifest, grow, and become more - a place where difference and inventiveness propel new beings into the world.
This painting is the second in a series inspired by Deleuze and Guattari’s One Thousand Plateaus (1987), a volume focusing on a systematic, environmental, and spatial philosophy. A larger scale oil painting, using saturnine colours with a splash of budding green, I am hoping my play of the imagination will be seen as the first seeds of a new mindset for the future, looking to the past where the patterns of the future lay.
Rhizome
2021
Media Art
The rhizome has been used to describe systems with no evident origin or end, multidirectional
and interweaving. A multiplicity with no central points and multiple entry ways. It
survives through variation, expansion, conquest, capture and offshoot. Deleuze and
Guattari’s One Thousand Plateaus, (1980), is a volume focusing on systematic,
environmental and spatial philosophy. Rhizomic learning is a practice informed by these
writings that allows for a fluid and a continually evolving redefinition of the task at hand.
With this artwork I have attempted to express these concepts via a network of markings that
appear as a dynamic system reminiscent of living organisms. The addition of animation
further enhances this quality.
2021
Curriculum vitae
Email: janejenkin31@gmail.com
A visual artist with a multidisciplinary practice incorporating drawing, painting, sculpture, and digital techniques. A focus on potential futures, most often environmental in nature, is a recurring concept within my work. After more than twenty years working in hospitality, retail, and office environments I have chosen to pursue my lifelong interest in the Arts Industry. I have developed my artistic skills through further education.
EDUCATION
2019 Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts, Oxygen College
https://www.oxygencollege.com.au
2020-2022 Bachelor of Creative Arts, Third year, Deakin University
Major: Visual Arts
Studied under: David Cross, Unit chair, David.cross@deakin.edu.au
Fiona Lee, f.lee@deakin.edu.au
Anne Wilson, Anne.wilson@deakin.edu.au
EXHIBITIONS
2019 Oxygen College group exhibition
2021 Tri 1 creative studio, group exhibition
Tri 2 creative studio, online exhibition
2024 Horizon Exhibtion, January 26 - March 24, Birregurra Art Gallery
2024 Birregurra Arts Trail, April 6 & 7, Birregurra Mechanics Hall
COMMUNITY PROJECTS
2020-2024 Birregurra Art Show committee member
2018-2020 Birregurra Landcare Group