PAINTINGS BY YEAR

WAITING FOR BONNARD

Posted by Jane Wheeler

oil and acrylic on collaged canvas, 80 x 70 cm

I have brought my painting materials indoors as the garage studio is too expensive to heat over the winter, and my painting space is squeezed into this room with its french doors. It always makes me think of Bonnard’s indoor/outdoor paintings, and this is a reworking of one of those I got stuck on a year ago. Really happy with how I resolved it, with Bonnard’s help. I have been loaned three marvellous books on his work, two of them from Paris museums. Also there is about to be a show at the Ingleby gallery in Edinburgh connecting some of their painters with Bonnard’s influence, so I was inspired to paint my own versions.

PARADISE LOST

Posted by Jane Wheeler

Oil and acrylic on collaged canvas, 61 x 61 cm
I am continuing to paint the garden and will be making a range of sizes, zooming in on various elements like this table with the bonsais. I painted it from a photo I took out of the kitchen window at the end of September, when I had Covid.

TELL ME YOU’LL COME HOME

Posted by Jane Wheeler

SOLD   Acrylic, cold wax and oil paint on canvas, 2024, 120 x 100 x 4 cm

I was inspired to have another go at painting my garden by Hayley Barker –  and Andrew Cranston, Bonnard and Paul Klee (ref Paul Klee for watering cans and trellis) and Matisse – my garden made over four years with cardboard sheet mulching over tired lawn, and prairie flowers grown from seed