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Original Abstract Paintings
New work for the Raglan Arts Weekend, October 2026
LEAP exhibition pieces have ArtRooms setups indicating size
For almost three decades Jane Galloway has made a name as a landscape painter and illustrator.
The landscapes require mental discipline, planning and many hours to produce. However, Jane has come to see completing them as an intellectual exercise requiring certain skills which, while absorbing, don’t allow her intuition a voice.
Finding her own form of expression through abstraction has meant beginning a work without a preconceived idea of how it might look. Some of her work is about colour – learning how to mix it, harmonise it and use the paint. It’s also about composition – how to move the eye freely around a work. Sometimes it’s just about trying to express a certain subtle feeling or idea. The more Jane has learned the more she has been able to experiment, letting go of an outcome. Some pieces take days to “arrive” at a place she thinks is complete. Others can happen quickly.
Jane’s most recent works experiment with pushing differences of control and looseness; structure and the ethereal; materiality and the metaphysical as she looks to the differences in her own personality.
LEAP has been a journey of several months of pushing the limits of planning versus painting intuitively to see what best resonates. it’s an ongoing journey.
Please email jane@palmprints.co.nz
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