Jayne Sandys-Renton
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Jayne works with semi-abstracted landscape and figures, in oils and mixed-media, both large and small scale. She will usually paint works that are highly textured, and with a high impact value. Critical engagement is with the paint, and pushing its possibilities within the context of contemporary painting. Her figures can be archetypal - calm, confidant, grounded, welcoming of the earth. Jayne’s use of colour comes from engagement with the subject. The act of applying pigment to a surface is a language that develops between pallet and artist. The colour is not about realism in a direct sense; it is used to engage the viewer with the painting in way that transcends the material world but still connects with ‘place’. Sometimes using actual earth as a pigment, the heavily textured surface of the painting reinforces this connection to 'matter', or earth.
Jayne is a Painter and freelance Art Teacher. Jayne finished her Fine Art degree at University College Chichester in 2003, leaving with a 2:1. Since then she’s been exhibiting regularly in West Sussex. In January 2004 Jayne set up the ‘Chichester Art School for Young People’, runing regular art classes for children with a passion for Art, aged 11-16. She teaches ‘very able pupils’ on behalf of WSCC, and runs ‘widening participation’ classes on behalf of the University of Chichester.
Study for Duncton Orange Earth (2003) acrylic on paper, 200 x 150 cm ©the artist