Jane Reynolds (NSW)

Jane Reynolds is a Sydney-based still life painter whose poised compositions investigate the relationships between colour, form and light. A consummate colourist, Reynolds revels in chromatic clashes and visually satisfying progressions, investing everyday objects with vibrance and visual delight. She paints these objects with stunning realism and places them into highly orchestrated groups, inventing arrangements that strike a balance between restraint and play. Through this, she gravitates towards abstraction, exploring still life as an interlocking system of formal elements. 

Within Reynolds’ subtly hyperreal compositions, commonplace objects appear familiar but idealised. She reduces a watering can or a biscuit box into simple, elegant forms with softened edges and no unwarranted creases or cracks. In this way, Reynolds dispenses with narrative to invite viewers to pause on formal beauty and complexity. And yet, she also ensures that these forms always feel tangible, rather than moving entirely into abstraction. Gently arranged into tight, orderly stacks or thrown into a dynamic jumble, her objects summon the urge to reach into the painted space and grasp the handle or topple the sphere. 

Influenced by mid-century design and hard-edge abstraction, Reynolds explores the optical play between flat plane and sculptural illusion. This is grounded in her two decades’ experience in traditional animation and visual effects, training in technical sleight-of-hand to create lifelike spaces through colour and light. In 2020, Reynolds commenced a full-time artistic practice, fusing a sophisticated understanding of tonal modelling and formal precision with the clarity and luminosity of oil painting.

Jane Reynolds (NSW)

Exhibitions

'INTO THE PINK' - Group Exhibition Sat 13 May - Sat 17 Jun 2023
'Expander - STILL LIFE' Wed 11 May - Sat 28 May 2022

Artworks

JANE REYNOLDS (NSW) - Arrangement 159 JANE REYNOLDS (NSW) - Arrangement 159 sold
JANE REYNOLDS - Arrangement 158 JANE REYNOLDS - Arrangement 158 sold
JANE REYNOLDS (NSW) - Arrangement 135 JANE REYNOLDS (NSW) - Arrangement 135 sold
JANE REYNOLDS (NSW) - Arrangement 136 JANE REYNOLDS (NSW) - Arrangement 136 sold
JANE REYNOLDS (NSW) - Arrangement 137 JANE REYNOLDS (NSW) - Arrangement 137 sold
JANE REYNOLDS (NSW) - Arrangement 138 JANE REYNOLDS (NSW) - Arrangement 138 sold

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