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Jan Neil uses a unique acrylic collage technique to produce extraordinary images inspired by the Australian landscape.
“I don’t know anyone who does it in the way I do,” Jan says. “What happens in the process, is that I start off with an idea, and then it develops a life of its own.”
The result is a startling mix of rich saturated reds, yellows and blues, with black separations and materials such as sand, fabric, timber, metal, paper, gold-leaf and chicken-wire, adding layer upon layer of colour and texture.
She has even been known to attack the work with a meat skewer to roughen things up.
Jan developed an affinity with the silk screen process and reproduces her work in limited edition giclee prints - individually produced, high-resolution, high-fidelity reproductions done on a special large format printer.
Jan Neil was born in
In 1980 she re-located to
Jan has had dozens of exhibitions in
“In each of my paintings, the process can be seen,” she says. “There is nothing invisible about it. They are like life – the layers of life as we get older.”
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