Jane Mennigke

Jane Mennigke was born in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province in South Africa. She came to Canada with her family in 2011. Her work has been a combination of studio practice painting landscapes and still life in oils and teaching at secondary level in SA and Canada.

She graduated from Durban University of Technology with a Diploma in Graphic design in 1982, also completing postgraduate studies in Education at the University of KwaZulu Natal in Pietermaritzburg in 2005.

Group shows were in 2004 and 2009 at Wedgewood, Hilton, and artSPACE Durban 2008, and two solo exhibitions, at artSPACE Durban, 2007 and St Anne’s Diocesan school, 2005.
Her interest in icon painting and the spiritual in art has influenced a number of her works and commissioned works, notably the Black Madonna and Child, for St Anne’s Diocesan School Chapel in Hilton, and the Aumbrey Door, a design for the Anglican Cathedral in Port Elizabeth.