Cyprus Art Gallery  

 

Jane Walker is a British artist, born in 1956, who recently lived and exhibited in Cyprus. Now in The Netherlands, she is keeping her links with Cypriot artist colleagues and hopes to exhibit again in Cyprus. Her career began in film-making with BBC television, including producing documentary profiles of artists. Marrying a diplomat in 1990 and needing to live abroad, brought an end to film making so she transferred creative visual expression to drawing and took a fine art diploma in Brussels in the studio of Anne Thirion.

 

Drawing the nude model has always been the backbone of her work and the human figure is never absent although the relationship to the model is always in question. In the Cyprus series of 2005, Together-Alone, (images of couples in tension which carried a metaphor about the Cyprus problem), models were rarely used as there was felt to be more freedom of expression in invention. In the present series in The Hague the model is back but the artist is also seen reflected - like a predator – feeling an unwelcome kind of sinister desire for the model and also a dependency - for (s)he is a bringer of artistic result.

 

 

 

Together-alone No.3

Couple

Nude study

Self portrait with model

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Self portrait with model

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