Artist Profile

In her recent work Jeanne is exploring the decorative elements
of various familiar traditions and cultures, as well as her own,
past and present and translated them onto the canvas.
 
"In this new context I explore decorative images as the
decorative but also as the narrative where the formal
communicates with the expressive, the figurative with the
abstract and various mediums with one another as the various cultures meet and communicate in a visual language."

Her work is mostly about experiences and experiencing, and the process of creating an image; a free exchange where the unconscious can react to what her consciousness is perceiving so that the image may emerge as it wants and needs to.

The images are about the process, the colours, the lines and the shapes that
emerge in front of me. They take on their own life and become another experience, sometimes reminiscent of the initial trigger, sometimes not.

She consciously tries not to control it but attempts at all times to remain as
receptive as possible to what she sees, leaving all preconceptions behind and
working without consequence.

Her work is mostly not of a figurative nature but should a recognisable form appear,
it is because it wants to and not because she has dictated it to be there. It is also about the materials she uses, their properties and trying to respect them with all
the integrity that she has.

Jeanne studied Fine Art from the early - mid 80s at Technikon Witwatersrand and
at Michaelis School of Art at the University of Cape Town. After setting forth into
a career in advertising, the film industry, a two year stint as an art teacher and
finally a journalist and publisher, she returned full time to her canvasses in 2001.

Jeanne works from her studio at her Cape Town home where she lives with her husband and son.

Preferred Media
Oil, acrylic and mixed media

Currently at the following galleries

  • Gill Alderman Gallery (Cape Town)
  • Uppercross Gallery (Mossel Bay)
  • Kizo Art gallery (Balito, KwazuluNatal)
  • Artsource (Dubai)
  • VEO (Cape Town)
  • Harbour Road Gallery (Kleinmond)
  • The Rossouw Gallery (Cape Town)
  • The Lisa King Gallery (Cape Town)
  • Fishermans Gallery (Hermanus)
  • Studio Bela (Bryanston, Johannesburg)

Represented by

  • Artsource (Dubai)
  • The Mark Galleries (KwazuluNatal)
  • Art Market Management (Cape Town