Jane Dell is a contemporary American artist and painter who combines imagery and inventive abstracted forms in her free-flowing, colorful surreal landscapes and figurative collage paintings. Organic shapes blend and contrast with geometric or imagined worlds using hard edge techniques with gestural brushwork bordering, at times, on conceptual themes. She makes sense of chaos and order in nature and her life. She’s interested in the intersection of the two; the ever-shifting boundaries. Influenced by the unpredictable aspects of life, she finds beauty in unexpected places. Her process is intuitive and experimental, and often starts with a loose idea, then allows the materials to guide the work as it evolves.
Her mixed media collage paintings reveal compositions and imagery that blur the lines between balance and disorder, reality and surrealism, using provocative photos and images from her photo archives, decorative papers and magazine photos she composes them within a layered painted surface. Compositions start to emerge that reveal an inner life of dreamlike scenes and unusual juxtapositions of forms that suggest imagined stories and myths that challenge the perception of the physical and visual realms.
