COAST-LINE   paintings and drawings    

NEW EXHIBITION:    'The meeting place between earth & water'
LENNOX ART COLLECTIVE  2/72 Ballina St Lennox Head 2478 (open 10am -3pm daily) from Friday 4th to 17th October 2019
a collection of paintings and drawings by Jan Rae
​ about the Ballina/Byron coast

Sometimes the memory of something is more poignant and focused than its reality and it is this emotional response to landscape that interests me.  My artwork is an enquiry into the constantly evolving meeting place between earth and water.
The headland drawings are often made on site; with the sun, wind and sea spray adding another dimension. The oil paintings are about mapping an observed, remembered and imagined coastline where the margin between earth and water is lost and refound. They also refer to a lifetime of experiencing the sublime beauty and tidal fluctuations of my home environment at Belongil Beach  
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​HEADLAND 1 (SKENNARS) 66x101cm mixed media,Arches paper  this drawing won the Waverley Drawing Prize 2011 (​judge Tim Olsen)
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HEADLAND 2 charcoal ink Arches paper 66x101cm
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Coolamon 2 oil on canvas 90x90cm
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Coolamon 1 oil on canvas 75cmx90cm
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THE PASS (charcoal Arches paper) 75cm x 101cm
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ROCKS and WATER oil on canvas 120cm x 150cm