I reinterpret colour and deconstruct forms, rather than focus on the detailed views in the landscape. I find myself instinctively drawn toward colour, I’m interested in how hues and values relate one another. Building a painting through the push and pull of light and colour values, the use of thick impasto brushstrokes and loose palette knife work, layers are applied, scraped backed and reworked. One of the things I like most about painting the landscape is finding a colour and mixing it for myself, making my paintings rich in colour. I keep leaning into the use of more texture in my works and I let it guide my brushwork. I’m working from a felt experience, I have to feel it and I paint what I feel. All of which lends to my distinctive style.
Jane Holden | Contemporary Painter 