'VIEWPOINTS' Oil on Canvas Board
Dimension: 24" x 16"
Certification of Authenticity: Apricus Art Collection
Signature: Signed by Artist
"Viewpoints" by Elea Jane appears to be an introspective oil on canvas board painting that exhibits a dichotomy of perspectives, contrasting the outward gaze of the subjects with the inward contemplation their expressions suggest. The composition is balanced yet dynamic, with two figures dominating the foreground, almost in a confrontational stance, engaging the viewer with their directness.
The painter employs a naturalistic palette to render the flesh tones, which imbues the subjects with a sense of warmth and vitality. The brushwork seems intentionally visible, offering a textural quality that adds to the raw and expressive nature of the piece. This technique, often referred to as impasto, gives a three-dimensional effect to the otherwise two-dimensional medium.
The background, featuring a window overlooking a pastoral landscape, is painted with looser, more abstract strokes, creating a soft contrast to the detailed rendering of the figures. This juxtaposition of the detailed and the diffuse helps to foreground the subjects, drawing the viewer's attention to their forms and expressions.
Additionally, the use of light is quite subtle, with what appears to be a natural light source coming from the direction of the window, highlighting the contours of the figures and providing a gentle luminosity to their skin.
The overall composition, with its central figures and the framing device of the window, suggests themes of introspection and the relationship between the internal self and the external world. The title "Viewpoints" could be a reference to the different ways of seeing represented in the painting—the literal view out of the window and the metaphorical view into the subjects' minds or souls.
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BIOGRAPHY
Elea Jane is a self-taught artist currently based in Oxford. Having been unsettled from her home country and separated from her father as a child, her art often oscillates between atmospheres of home and horizon: the shadows that settle and flicker around comfort in the former, and the vertiginous void of swelling euphoria in latter. Her art focuses on the emergence of sensation and symbol which informs the complexity of subjectivity - whether through her portraits, which play with existing line and colour to bring out abstract forms speaking expressions beyond what’s prefigured and easily conceivable - or through her series of figurative dreamscapes reminiscent of fairy tales and surrealist art, laden with overtly symbolic, conflicting imagery and inspired by the spirit of collage and graffiti, mapping out the subject’s mind in the influx of information of its surroundings.
Having recently emerged from a years-long abusive relationship, Elea also uses the work as a reappropriation of self and sexuality. The trauma suffered from the abuse left the artist with severe problems with speech; the language constructed through her art, that private space that fluctuates between reality and imagination, through sensation, allowed her to take back control of her own voice. She has exhibited in Paris, has completed dozens of portrait commissions since she began painting three years ago, and her portraits are featured in the interview book Follow for Now vol. 2. by Roy Christopher. She lives in the Chilterns with her sister and her cat, Mia.
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