Jane Corsellis NEAC

Statement

Jane Corsellis has been a longtime member of the New English Art Club and is a passionate supporter of the ideals that the group upholds. Her paintings, both oils and watercolours, reflect her very personal vision and her amazing response to the quality and surprises of light. She constructs her paintings carefully, building a web of colour which steers towards the abstract but never foregoing the figurative tradition. Sir Kenneth Clarke stated that "above all else, art must be life enhancing" and Jane Corsellis’s work reveals and celebrates that world to us.

Methodology

Jane Corsellis works in a traditional method; from the preparation and stretching of canvases to occasionally grinding her own colours. She keeps almost daily studies of subjects that interest her in sketchbooks. Jane tends to work on a number of larger canvases at the same time, gradually bringing them to completion over a few months.  However she is deeply committed to the “plein-air” method of painting, preferring to work on site in a smaller scale, when she can capture the changing light and colours to her advantage. She particularly enjoys painting by the sea and on the beaches where the constant movement of people and waves stretches the eye, mind and hand to the limits. By complete contrast to the “dash” of landscape Jane is intrigued by the discipline of a carefully observed still life, be it a complex arrangement or a freshly caught fish or brace of partridge. 

Bio

1940 Born on 27 January

1960 Byam Shaw School of Art

1972 to 89 Lived in Hong Kong, Canada, Malaysia and UK

1976 Elected member of NEAC 1976

1990- Lived in London and West Wales 

1995 Elected member of the Royal Watercolour Society

2002 Elected member of the Royal Cambrian Academy

Memberships

Royal Watercolour Society

Royal Cambrian Academy