Jane Akin
Jane Akin finds her subjects in historic buildings and the plants and animals all around her. You can almost hear the trees swaying and the creatures moving through the bush!
Jane's home/studio is in Estate Boetzberg where she produces four shows a year, as well as commissions, and teaches watercolor and drawing. She is also the Artist in Residence at the Buccaneer Hotel offering watercolor classes twice a week.
Jane has been an interior designer and architecture is still a haunting subject making many of her commissions house portraits. But tropical flowers are her very favorite subjects and, like Georgia O'Keefe, paints them larger than life. This is where her mastery of watercolor really shows its spontaneity--mingling colors, "glazing" one over another, creating luminosity, allowing the pigment to "bloom," and creating texture with salt or dry brush.
Jane's paintings often make you smile featuring subjects with humor, whimsy, or a surprise element like sugar birds eating off fine china, or frogs dancing acrobatically. She had much fun with the April and May covers!
But it's rich color that is Jane's signature. Even a seemingly colorless subject radiates many hues in her hands--bold and plentiful ones but carefully chosen. Jane always works with "pure colors that work well together and give the painting unity."
Jane has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of North Texas and has been painting her beloved St. Croix since moving here in 1998. Jane had a one-woman show, "If The Shoe Fits," which opened March 19 at Watch Your Step Gallery in Christiansted.
Her work can be seen at Caribbean Museum Center and Cultural Creations in Frederiksted, and at Many Hands and Design Works in Christiansted, and the Divi Resort Gift Shop on the East End and by appointment. Call 713-8419 or email akinstudio@viaccess.net.
April Savings! Visit the artist at her home studio and receive 20% off and more on all of her original artwork.
Comments
HI JANE - I NEED TO KNOW THE ADDRESS FOR INFORMATION ON GEEKLAY (OF COURSE THAT ISN'T SPELLED RIGHT) A RESTRUANT IN MARBLEHEAD WANTS TO BUY MY LOBSTER PAINTIG BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A COPY FOR MYSELF. HOPE ALL IS WELL WITH YOU.
SHARON
Posted by: sharon faulkner | July 3, 2009 10:30 AM