Shoal Collage

After studying art and music in various forms over some time Jane Pearrett continues to explore painting and collage as her main point of interest. She is an experimental artist, not content to stick too meticulously to a rigid style or idea. Her painting focuses mainly on geometric abstraction with figuration (if used) reduced to elemental lines. She prefers to work direct from her imagination using design skills rather than observation. Being mainly oil paintings the works are concerned with balancing colour, line, form and placement with the goal that they are aesthetically pleasing rather than subject based, representational work. Her collages are somewhat different being more figurative but employing techniques that play with figuration, involve chance and thus produce unexpected results. She embraces making digital work also and sometimes combines both handmade and digital elements in one work. However the works included here, so far, are done in the old-fashioned way, by hand. She has also created works with her partner, Robin Tomens, under the name of 'WE' which are mixed media pieces that produce interesting, hybrid, results. Elements for collages are sourced from vintage books which are cut by hand and altered in various ways, placed and then brought together often with elemental lines, form and colour. Text is often used, encouraging closer inspection of the work but is often random words, there by chance. Usually in a small format they explore aesthetic ideas of what a 'picture' can be. She currently shows regularly with an art collective in London called The Tunnel. Her favourite period in art history is the early 20th century.