Jane Everett, grew up in Winnipeg and completed her Fine Arts degree at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Engaged in painting oil on canvass, and drawing on vellum with charcoal, graphite, and conte, her work reevaluates traditional materials and media with iconoclastic method.
Her waterscape paintings verge on the abstract, using complex layering of colour to render the undulating surface of water in an intricate study of light and form. Her drawings cover a broad range of subject matter from construction sites and bridges to her series of backyard birds.
For the past number of years she has lived in Western Canada, while her work is has been exhibited at the Reach Gallery/Museum in Abbotsford, BC – Carnegie Gallery in Dundas, ON – Lake Country Art Gallery, BC – Bugera Matheson Gallery in Edmonton, AB – Granville Fine Art in Vancouver, BC – Kelowna Art gallery, BC – Vernon Art Gallery, BC – Elevation Gallery in Canmore, AB – Bilton Contemporary Art in Red Deer, AB – Penticton Art Gallery, BC – Richmond Art Gallery, BC – St. Francis Xavier University Art Gallery in Antigonish, NS.
Collections
Colart Collection, Montreal
University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna BC
Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon BC
Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
Cancer Care Centre, Kelowna General Hospital
Talisman Energy, Calgary, AB
Royal Canadian Securities, Winnipeg, MB
Investors Group, Winnipeg, MB.
Jane has been leaving in Kelowna, BC for last few years.