Jan Stapleton
Jan is a Sydney-based, contemporary Australian landscape painter whose work has featured in over thirty major commercial gallery exhibitions in Sydney and Canberra over the past 36 years. Since 2000 her work has been selected for inclusion in seven major selective, curated exhibitions at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery in Sydney’s southern suburbs.
Art Work
Summer Blue Cronulla
Size: 88 x 103cm
Kimberley Lilies in the Light
Size: 76 x 122cm
Salt Lake
Size: 60 x 60cm
Lilies at First Light
Size: 46 x 46cm
Blue Sea & Sandstone - Coast Walk
Size: 89 x 103cm
Lotus Bird Billabong& Paperbarks at Dusk
Size: 93 x 102cm
The Quiet Light of Dawn - Kakadu
Size: 93 x 123cm
Beach Grass
Size: 93 x 123cm
Morning Lilies Cape York
Size: 76 x 76cm
Hacking River - Indigo
Size: 93 x 84cm
Jan's Biography
From around 2000 onwards landscape themes in acrylic, oil, mixed media were explored in a more experimental and poetic manner using the artist’s unique, creative interpretations of the Australian landscape. As her landscape work developed she was able to travel and experience much of the vast and beautiful wilderness in this country.
The remote areas of Cape York, Western Queensland and Gulf country, the Northern Territory and Arnhem Land, Western Australia’s Kimberley and Pilbara regions and on two occasions the vast inland sea of Lake Eyre following flooding. Ever gathering material and ideas for new paintings. These remote wilderness areas continue to be a powerful inspiration in the creation of new artwork. Her evocative contemporary landscape work and ‘billabong’ paintings are highly sought after. She is represented extensively in private collections here and overseas.
In the words of the artist.
“My paintings reflect my deep love of nature and the outback. My connections to the landscape and the wide open spaces of this country. To the landscape I bring my own marks, colours, vision and my energy and passion. The act of creation brings life to a painting. The paintings become more than what I physically ‘see’. The act of painting always takes me back to these places”.