Jayne Sandys-Renton is a contemporary painter from Chichester, West Sussex, who works on a medium to large-scale in oil or mixed media on canvas, using figurative themes. Her art work is expressive, individual, affordable, and is represented in collections in London and the USA.
Jayne also runs the CHICHESTER ART SCHOOL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
Her art work is appropiated from photographs. She has spent a year making paintings inspired by the experimental photographs of Francesca Woodman. It is with the malleable, material quality of the paint she can extend what the photograph presents and rework it in a new manner, but with an echo of the origin. This allows her work a freedom but also a serious investigation of another body of work as well as her own.
Working directly from photographs using paint raises questions of authorship; can a contemporary artist ever be ‘original’ or ‘new’ as our media-driven culture seems to require? It also questions the nature of representation; what’s being represented, the subject/image, the process of translation, or the photograph itself as a material object? This process also highlights a self-conscious move away from the digitised photographic image towards a material ‘experience’.