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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.
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