Jane Dennis - Resume Artist in the remote Kimberleys of Western Australia Years of training and travel Living in the bush of Western Australia My Online Gallery Your Comments Jazclass Links

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JD 1 - Years of training and travel

I was born in 1961, in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. I studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) where I completed a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1982, majoring in Printmaking and Painting. After my studies travel, discovery and adventure became paramount, as it was evident that I must discover what I liked, not what I was told to like! I worked as a graphic artist, house painter, chef, hotel manager and presently run a small take-a-way food outlet in Wyndham a remote outpost in the Kimberley mountains in Western Australia. For over 10 years I lived in the cities of Europe, America and Australia. The beauty I found was somewhat distorted. The urban landscape and its inhabitants were hectic and often tortured. My art work reflected this. In retrospect it was all quite gruesome. However I had much success in my solo exhibitions, culminating in such things as residence patronage in Florence, Italy.

JD 2 - Living in the bush of Western Australia

For the past 5 years I have lived in the country of Western Australia. Its beauty is overpowering. Originally drawn there by the discovery that I have Ancient Spanish blood.

For 5 years I have lived and worked on cattle stations and aboriginal communities teaching Art, and I feel a certain serenity in this quiet isolation. It seems that every bug, breeze and tree is essential.

Jane Dennis.