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  Scottish Contemporary Artist

JANE CARTNEY, originally from Aberdeen, is an established artist and musician currently based at her Art Studio and Gallery in Weston-super-Mare on the Somerset coast.

Her paintings have been shown in Europe, as well as both in England and Scotland, and some work is now held in private collections in the UK and the USA.

Described as a colourist-expressionist, Cartney is a spontaneous artist who works intuitively. The main body of her work is informed and inspired by form and colour, either in architecture or the landscape. With her long interest in figurative work, Cartney now accepts private portrait commissions.

'She has been compared to both Van Gogh and Gaudi and her work does feel like it contains the wonder of Gaudi with the edgy paranoia of the Dutch post impressionist' Paul Wynter, LondonArt, 2010


 
Work in progress: Portrait of a Cotswold Ewe, oil on canvas, March 2012
Work in progress: Portrait of a Cotswold Ewe, oil on canvas, March 2012
 
 
Regent Gallery and Studio The Society of Scottish Artists
 
 

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Life Drawing 
After a very long gap, I have recently returned to life drawing.  Here are two works from recent classes with Bristol Drawing School which are held in the main gallery of the RWA - a lovely inspiring spacious venue.
http://www.drawingschool.org.uk/.

Pastel Life Study - Seated Male by Jane Cartney

Life Study - Standing female by Jane Cartney
 
New Web Site
A new website which will combine both the art and music elements of my activities is currently being created and will replace my 4 original websites including this one. Inevitably some original content from the other sites will be off-line during this process. My apologies if you are unable to find the information you hoped to find - please do get in touch via the contact page on this site with any questions.
Jane Cartney Art Studio & Gallery
   
New Social Art Enterprise in Weston-super-Mare 
I have been invited to be a featured artist at THE GALLERY @ Digital Photo Studio in Weston-super-Mare where I will be showing four works of art each month.  This innovative enterprise has dedicated the entire first floor of a lovely converted chapel in the centre of the town as a gallery to promote the work of professional artists from the area, with a series of monthly exhibitions.
THE GALLERY @ Digital Photo Studio, 3 Locking Road, W-s-M BS 23 3BY. Open Mon-Sat 9am - 6pm.
Tel:  01934 626616
www.digitalphotoscanning.co.uk
Blue Coat, 2011, oil on canvas, 76.2x61cm
  Blue Coat, 2011, oil on canvas, 76.2x61cm
   
Italy
I have been selected to show works both in Florence and Rome.
I am in the throws of organizing to show at the Florence Biennale later this year. I have also been invited to mount a one-woman exhibition in 2012/2013 at a small gallery in the centre of Rome close to San Carlino, Borromini's famous baroque church. Prior to the solo exhibition, I plan to show a small selection of my work in 2012 at a group exhibition of emerging artists with Galleria Tondinelli
San Carlo alle Quatro Fontane in Rome (published under licence)
  San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome (published under licence)
   
Budapest
In 2009 I was invited to show three of my paintings in the World Wide View Exhibition at the Opera Gallery in the heart of Hungary's capital city - the first time my work was shown in continental Europe.
Boulevard in Blue (right) created in 2006 & the first of the Boulevard paintings in the Weston-super-Mare Series, was one of the works
Boulevard in Blue by Jane Cartney
   

POSTCARDS FOR SICK KIDS 2010
Quizzical Cow oil on canvas board, and Lewis goes to Edinburgh pen and ink, were created specially to raise funds at the Event exhibition and sale at Lyon and Turnbull in Edinburgh,Scotland in November 2010.
  www.edinburghsickkids.org

Quizzical Cow by Jane Cartney

   

A 2010 REVIEW of my paintings by Paul Wynter of LondonArt is reproduced on my Biography page - click here and scroll down

Jedburgh Evening by Jane Cartney
   
The Artist's Garden
Jane and Michael's Sanctuary Garden was designed and created in 2003, and is interesting in all seasons. Friends and fellow artists are most welcome to drop in and enjoy this special place. Phone me on 01934 418198 or contact me by email.
Jane Cartney - Artists Garden
   
Portrait Commissions
I accept private portrait commissions. If you are considering commissioning a portrait, please contact me to arrange a confidential consultation. Portrait of Richard Glover, 2008-9, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm.
On the easil commission portrait by Jane Cartney
   
Art for Charity
I have supported a number of charities in the UK and the USA in recent years by creating special work and donating paintings, prints and cards fto raise funds for special causes.
The charities I have supported are:  The Sick Kids Friends Foundation at Edinburgh Royal Royal Hospital for Children www.edinburghsickkids.org,  The Society of Scottish Artists
www.s-s-a.org
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The Brooke Hospital for Animals
www.thebrooke.org,
The Mayhew Animal Home
www.mayhewanimalhome.org,
Lupus International
www.lupusinternational.com
ill.  Torquil The Great, pen & ink on board, 21x14.5cm, created to support SSA exhibition funding; Inscrutable, oil on board, created to support the Edinburgh Sick Kids Friends Foundation;  Dutch Gable, limited edition print, donated to support Lupus International
Torquil The Great by Jane CartneyInscrutable by Jane CartneyDutch Gable by Jane Cartney
   
Debut and Retrospective
Jane Cartney - Debut & Retrospective is on view through May 13 at Venue 99 - North Somerset Arts Week 2007. Contemporary Scottish colourist-expressionist - professional painter and printmaker, art historian. Formative training in Aberdeen, main centres of study, Amsterdam, Ghent, Paris, Edinburgh, London, Brighton... Life Study - Seated Female Front (Kate in Wandsworth), pencil life study, 1984.
Life Study by Jane Cartney
 
early self portrait sketches
A selection of early self portrait sketches.
 
 
Private Viewing, 22 March 2006 - photograph by Volkan Kan

'At the Private Viewing of 'jane cartney the beach road series' on
22 March 2007'  photograph by Volkan Kan





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