West Australian Artist Jacinda Bayne invites us to pause and connect. Her Landscapes provide a space for the viewer to breathe and to take time to reflect upon personal experiences. These large scale, evocative canvases are a fusion of experiences, memories and thoughts - light filtering through trees and water, suspended in time. Open fields of colour, smooth gradients of blues/turquoise, familiar landforms, a clearing in a forest and calm waters reflect the world above and below. Colour is always an integral part of the process that evokes emotion toward what we are seeing. Glazes of oil paint fall into considered areas and pathways. The work is smooth, fluid and rich in pigment. Seemingly accidental runs of paint are expertly controlled and purposely placed to lead the eye through the composition. The scale of the works intends to allow the viewers to immerse themselves within the work and quieten the noise of the outside world. Carefully placed, bridges, trees and bodies of water all elicit quietude and reflection. Inspired by natural beauty, Jacinda returns to her collection of sketches, photographs and paint palettes, where the endless combinations of colours create an internal dialogue. Her combination of colour, light and imagery trigger one’s own sense of place.
BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts)
Fine Art school, Dunedin, Otago, NZ 1997
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Familiar Land, The Studio Gallery
2018 Gallery at 350 Bleecker, New York
2017 Merging Landscapes, Anderson Contemporary New York
2016 Past and Present The Studio Gallery
2015 “Records” PSAS Fremantle
2014 “Landscape and Memory” L & K Galleries
2013 “The Floating Tree” L & K Galleries
2011 “Where The Water Talks” L & K Galleries
2010 “In a Different Light” L & K Galleries
2009 “Journey Through the Kimberley” Monsoon G. Broome
2007 “Horizons” - Mandurah Performing Arts Centre
Selected group shows
2014 10yrs Mandurah Performing Arts Ctre Collection, WA
2012 International Sister City Exhibition – Chengdu, China
2011 “North and South” Studio Gallery -Yallingup ,WA
2010 City Art Walk Black Swan Art Prize Perth, WA
1999 Group Exhibition Stenton Gallery, E Lothian, Scotland
1997 Otago Art School 100year Exhibition Dunedin, NZ
2014 Highly Commended City Of Bussselton Art Award
2014 Heysen Prize Finalist SA
2013 Black Swan Heritage Finalist WA
2013 Art Prizes Australia VIC
2011 Winner - Mandjar Art Award WA
2010 WA Premiers Art Partnership Grant
2008,9,10 YAWA award Finalist and ‘Artitude’ WA
2008 Highly Commended Signature Southwest WA
2008 Highly commended Vasse Art Award WA
2006 Highly commended Canning Art Awards WA
2005 Winner - Canning Art Award WA
2016 Donnelly River WA
2013 Mowanjum Mural Art Project- Derby WA
2013 Art Residency - Arts Brookfield WA
2012 Artist residency - Chengdu China
2011 Artist In Residence – Bankwest WA
2011 Artist In Residence -True North WA
2010 Artist In Residence - Enex 100 WA
1996/7 WASPS Edinburgh, Scotland
International Art Museum Chengdu China
Mandurah Performing Arts Gallery Collection
Otago Fine Arts School Dunedin New Zealand
Go Marine WA/Singapore
Mineral House WA
True North WA
Mirvac WA
Ashburton College NZ
I paint intuitively, playing with the movement of paint on canvas to achieve unique visual effects. I create richly textured works layered with opaque and translucent paint, but I also enjoys leaving clues for the viewer about how they were constructed. Patches of blank canvas, drips or cracks in the paint are examples of my “playful but considered” technique.
“I love paint, and I use it to create a kind of visual dialogue,” says the artist whose work is at once bold, sensitive and evocative. “I want people to understand my work from the point of view of design and mood, as well as the sense of place it evokes.”
“For me, if a landscape comes to life, all I see is shape and colour. I’m completely compelled to paint it.”