Jane de France & Brent Redding Joint Art Exhibition

We are pleased to invite you and your guests to the opening celebration of Jane de France and Brent Redding's joint exhibition on the 30th of August 2022. Jane will be at the opening so please come and enjoy a glass of wine with us and be amazed by the wonderful paintings that have been created by our gifted artists.

Date: Tuesday the 30th of August 2022
Time: 6-8 pm
Venue: ArtSelect Gallery, 19A Osborne Street, Newmarket, Auckland

Jane de France
Jane de France's talent was born from a strong artistic family environment. As a child, she was inspired by her grandfather's paintings and her mother's drawings. She has fond memories of sketching horses with her mother from a very young age.

Today Janes inspiration and encouragement comes from many sources including her husband, a singer-songwriter.

Jane is a member of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts and exhibits exclusive New Zealand Galleries.

Her generosity is displayed in her gift to various charities and is the recipient of several awards.
Judges award comment - 'Roses in the Storm' is a painting of roses floating in a vaporous mist, de France's subject is caught between conflicting impressions of serenity and chaos. Yet, here is also an artist who in her finest moments is capable of manipulating paint on canvas to its best advantage.
Her awareness of tradition and her technical ability has given her the foundation from which to develop her own style as an expressionist.

Gorgeous compositions oscillate between modern and traditional and are described as passionate, beautiful, ethereal, opulent and dramatic.
Artist statement: Every painting gives me immense joy and satisfaction, and represents all my feelings and energy of that particular time.

A painting begins with a concept only, seeking subjective emotions and responses to the subject matter. This takes on its own development throughout a process of layering, rubbing back, glazing and reapplying until subtle images suggest the course of direction to each piece of artwork. My work gains richness, luminosity and depth, evoking beauty, serenity and warmth.

My work has developed as I have as a person. When I look over past work, I see direct influences and reasons for what I have produced. I have a sense of beauty and contentment around me now, which I feel, reflects in my art today.

The works of art on display can be previewed on the artist page above.

Brent Redding
Brent Redding is a self-taught painter, working in oils, acrylics and pastel, with considerable variation in style, believing that the subject itself dictates a lot about the direction a painting takes. However, this fluidity of style also results from fairly constant exploration.

He has always looked for pattern/design in his figurative work, and this has manifested as a series of recurring motifs (mannequins/apples/clocks/planes etc) appearing in designs circular/symmetrical/repeating. To date the resulting work has variously shown influences of surrealism, futurism, pop art and other genres. More recently this pattern fascination has invaded previously realistic landscape and seascape styles to create a disrupted reality.

Brent first exhibited in 1985 and has had solo exhibitions in various cities around New Zealand and Australia. He has worked as a graphic artist and muralist, and teaches painting part-time.

He has received a few awards including winner of the Norsewear Painting Award in 1994. In 2004 his painting, “Red, White and Blues” raised $26,000 for Cranford Hospice at the annual charity auction, a record for that event at that time..

The works of art on display can be previewed on the artist page above.

Contact me, Ngaire, on any of my contact details below to register your interest to purchase any of these works of art before the opening.

We look forward to seeing you and your guests at the opening reception and during the exhibition.