Using collage and acrylic paint, I create vivid, mixed-media portraits of people, birds, and animals. Painting and drawing people has been a lifelong fascination. Successfully capturing a physical likeness is important to me, but revealing their essence and unique personal qualities is what really makes a portrait sing.
Painting portraits of local birds and animals is a more recent passion. I am amazed at the way their eyes show their inner spirit. Their beautiful, expressive faces are so full of character and they often exhibit a humorous quality that I like to show in my work.
Certain aspects of my creative process are unpredictable. Composition and a general colour scheme are planned in advance, but the background and the placement of collage papers is quite intuitive. Sometimes the text on various papers is intentional or even personal in the case of commissioned portraits.
Layers and textures are achieved using both acrylic paint and torn paper. Non-traditional tools are used for mark-making creating unique effects. Papers are selected for their colour, text size, and pattern and are sourced mostly from magazines, hand-painted papers, and mono prints.
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Jane Atkinson reserves the right to produce and sell reproductions of any and all of her original paintings in any form.
Jane Atkinson reserves the right to produce and sell reproductions of any and all of her original paintings in any form.