Acrylic Painting
Jane Ianniello
In the past decade Jane Ianniello has sold hundreds of paintings worldwide, been a finalist in many art competitions, and exhibited in major Brisbane and Gold Coast galleries. Jane’s original paintings are included in many private international art collections.
Artist Profile
In the past decade Jane Ianniello has sold hundreds of paintings worldwide, been a finalist in many art competitions, and exhibited in major Brisbane and Gold Coast galleries. Jane’s original paintings are included in many private international art collections.
Jane creates a variety of retro paintings. Her “Pulp” paintings incorporate images from the covers of cheap popular magazines of the 1930s to 50s that were designed to titillate and excite their audiences. These covers used an illustrative or comic book style. Often Jane places the scared or startled cover model into an incongruous or surreal background. Her “Mythology” paintings hark back to various literary and cultural sources, including traditional fairytales, gothic horror stories, and other myths that we all grew up on, and present them with a new twist. In Jane’s “Wild West” paintings she appropriates movie stills of actors from classic Hollywood western movies of the 1940s and 50s and places the gun-toting protagonists in arid but beautiful desert landscapes. The mythology of the Wild West is based on the tough, self-reliant person who survives as best they can in the harsh and lawless frontier.
Artist Interview
What medium do you work with, and why have you chosen them?
Jane's paintings capitalise on the vibrant clean colours and glossy nature of acrylic paints and gels, and subtly incorporate iridescent metallics and bright interference paints.
How does your artwork get from initial concept to exhibition stage?
Jane's process is slow and considered. She takes days to select the topic, mood, composition and style of her next painting, and then weeks to paint a compelling story for the viewer.
Can you tell us a little more about your creative working environment/studio?
Jane's studio is a room where she has laid down cheap vinyl flooring and removed the curtains because It gets covered in paint. The mess she makes in creating her paintings always astounds people who have visited her studio!
Career Highlights
- Half page article on my art in Brisbane's Courier Mail newspaper
- Exhibited in many South East Queensland galleries
- Taught art classes to local artists||PARAGRAPH_BREAK||
