Jane Moynihan
Jane has a passion for telling stories with paint. Drawing on her interest in Jungian psychology, myth, and the shamanic realms, she loves to delve in to what lies hidden on the borderlands between what is seen with the ordinary eye and what might be sensed with the artist's imagination.
Jane started painting around ten years ago without any formal training, and has since trained with the established Dutch artist, Imelda Almqvist. The only style she follows is one where she aims to put technique in the service of the imagination, and allows a story to unfold around a central subject, image or theme. Her favourite artistic media are acrylics and oil pastels, and more recently Jane has enjoyed stepping beyond the canvas in to live earthwork art and collaborative community sculpture and collage. Although Jane does not follow a particular style, she admires the Surrealists and Symbolists, as well as the the painters of the Romantic Imagination (Blake, Fuesli and Goya). She has a deep interest in the alchemical paintings of the Middle Ages and resonates with the paintings of Alex Grey, Meinrad Craighead, Imelda Almqvist, Frieda Kahlo, and Marc Chagall. In 2017 Jane took part in Apathy and Tea's exhibition in the Southend Art Trail. As a founding member of the artist group, Broken Branches Collective, Jane exhibited The Art of Transformation in 2015 at the Rayleigh Windmill in Essex. The culmination of the exhibition was a collaborative live sculpture, inviting visitors to contribute small pieces of artwork collage, which was subsequently adopted by Rayleigh Library. She also was resident artist for a local school in 2013 and donated a painting for a competition which encouraged children to use artwork as a way to tap into creative story-telling and poety. Jane has an MA in Jungian psychology, and a BA in English Literature, and lives and works in London. |