Vistas near and far
I wasn’t always a city girl, drawn to the shapes and colors of Manhattan’s towers, bridges, and high rises. Rather, I was raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, surrounded and inspired with the tree-studded meadows of local arboreta. Vast open spaces spoke to me.
So when I first moved to the East Village in New York City, the lushness of Ireland and our midwestern fields of green and gold beckoned me to travel and explore more about how light plays with landscape. I still journey far and wide to capture the fleeting effects of sun and shadow. And with a home studio along the northern coast of Maine, I continue to enmesh myself in Nature’s vistas.
Jane McNichol works in oil, ink, and charcoal.
Yes, I’m a plein air painter. But I also work from sketches, photographs, and memory to create my large-scale canvases. Lately, I’ve focused on narrative snapshots of family and friends, painting them in their favorite places. This work is yet another type of landscape, more personal yet environmental. Even more intimate are the still lifes of whatever is on my table or windowsill.
While getting my B.A. in studio arts from my hometown’s Temple University, I spent a semester in Rome, Italy, studying at the Villa Caproni. Since then, I’ve lived for three months as a MacDowell Fellow in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and more recently, I’ve continued to embrace change and new experiences.
People Places Things
By Jane McNichol
Revealing her creative journey from point of inspiration — a glittering Brooklyn rooftop, an icy rural street, a solitary golden pear, a friend’s dinner party, pink-tinged sand dunes and much more —Jane McNichol gives us an intriguing glimpse into the artistic process that resulted in this book’s 25 paintings.
Soft cover, full color throughout, 48-pages
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