Jane Askey
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Abbey Steps and Penzance Harbour
oil on paper
56 x 76cm £1295 -
Almost Night Porthmeor
oil on paper
32 x 31cm £435 -
SoldBeached
acrylic on canvas
60 x 90cm -
Bright Lights, Bright Whites St Ives
acrylic & gesso on board
21 x 29cm £450 -
SoldBrightly Lit Porthmeor & Harbour Beaches
oil on board
40 x 41cm -
SoldCorner of Regent Square
oil on paper
18 x 28cm -
SoldExpanse
acrylic on canvas
70 x 100cm -
First View of the Harbour
oil and ink on paper
30 x 42cm £595 -
SoldGlow
oil, collage & gesso on board
21 x 29cm -
Godrevy Lighthouse from Barnoon Terrace
oil on paper
56 x 76cm £1200 -
SoldGodrevy Lighthouse from the Tate, St Ives
oil on paper
56 x 76cm -
SoldGolden Apple Tree Flooded with Moonlight
mixed media on paper
30 x 42cm -
SoldHarbour Sands revealed at low tide, St Ives
oil & pencil on paper
56 x 76cm -
SoldLate Summer in Zennor
oil and graphite on paper
45 x 53cm -
Looking over the Rooftops from Tate St Ives
oil paint & pastel on paper
30 x 30cm £450 -
SoldMoonlit Harbour Houses
acrylic on paper
23 x 29cm -
Morning Mist Penzance
oil on paper
56 x 76cm £1295 -
SoldMorning Walk St Ives
oil and graphite on board
30 x 30cm -
Morning Walk to Kitty’s Corner
oil on canvas
30 x 40cm £625 -
SoldMousehole Harbour
oil and graphite on paper
56 x 76cm -
Mousehole Harbour, Mid Tide
oil and pencil on paper
56 x 76cm £1200 -
Northerly Wind, St Ives
oil on paper
30 x 42cm £595 -
SoldPalm Trees St Ives
oil and gesso on board
21 x 29cm -
Regent Square Palm Trees
mixed media on paper
21 x 30cm £425 -
SoldSoar High
acrylic on canvas
100 x 100cm -
SoldSt Ives Blues
oil & pencil on paper
30 x 30cm -
SoldSt. Ives and Palm Trees
oil and graphite on paper
56 x 77cm -
SoldSummer Blue Sky, St Ives
mixed media
29 x 29cm -
SoldSummer in Regent Square
oil on paper
19 x 28cm -
SoldSummer St Ives
oil & pencil on paper
56 x 76cm -
Sweep of Cloud over Regent Square
oil on paper
30 x 42cm £595 -
SoldSweep of Sand
oil & graphite on paper
55 x 76cm -
Tide Going Out, Abbey Steps
oil on paper
30 x 42cm £595 -
Turquoise Sea, Storm Sky St Ives
oil on paper
56 x 76cm £1200 -
Walk to find a High Up View
oil on paper
19 x 19cm £395 -
SoldWashing Drying St Ives
oil on paper
56 x 76cm
Walking is an important part of my thought process, it helps me think more clearly, form ideas and discover new subject matter. Sometimes the simplest everyday view can provide an exciting new beginning for a painting. Drawing on location helps me to record these initial thoughts and observations. Working outside over the years has helped me to inject more energy and spontaneity into my mark making.
I particularly enjoy views from an elevated vantage point or an unusual angle. The architecture of towns and harbours has recently inspired new paintings. In drawing and painting the interlocking shapes and colours of houses, boats and other architectural details it feels like I am solving a visual puzzle with a different and surprising solution with each painting.
Not quite knowing the outcome of each new piece is the spur that drives me to create. I feel an excitement at the beginning of a new painting, there is an urgency to start and see where the painting process of observing, experimenting and interpreting takes me. The process also involves questioning whether I have communicated the feeling of a place or thing and I work away until I find it through the handling of the media.
Jane Askey graduated from Manchester Polytechnic thirty-one years ago with a degree in Printed Textiles and subsequently worked as a freelance textile designer. She taught and inspired university students for thirty years, combining this with a career in painting. Jane’s original paintings have been exhibited in galleries throughout the UK and her paintings have also been licensed worldwide. Clients include The National Trust, Woodmansterne Publications, Paperchase, The Art Group, Phoenix Trading, Clare Maddicott Publications, Abacus, Cancer Research, The Robertson Collection and John Lewis.
Based in Scotland, with a studio that looks across the Firth of Forth to Edinburgh, Jane travels widely and sketches on location, experimenting with drawing and painting using mixed media in response to the landscape, the coast and architecture. Her background in textile design is evident in her approach to organising composition, colour and texture. She often works en plein air and this is reflected in her approach to handling paint, exploring the physical quality of the medium, allowing the gestural brush marks to suggest where land and sea meet with an emphasis on exploring colour, texture and light to evoke the character and mood of a specific place. Back in the studio she works on a range of surfaces referencing sketchbooks, photographs and memory.