Melinda Jane - multidisciplinary artist
Melinda Jane is a multidisciplinary artist, whose practice spans mixed media, printmaking, painting, textiles and the written word. She explores the intimate relationship to the earth by connecting with the vulnerability, the stillness and the simple beauty of the natural world through her sensitive, intuitive artwork.
Melinda Jane’s creative practice investigates the nature of Self and of human connection while defining ecological relationships that shape an inner emotional world and relational attunement. Using both metaphor and a phenomenological sense of being in the world, she weaves together cultural identity, ecological responsibility and a sense of belonging into her work.
Informed by patterns and motifs of the natural environment and structures of decay and regrowth, her intimate works draw the viewer into quiet contemplation and an unspoken dialogue with the details of the other-than-human world as well as with our own inward geography.
Visual symbols, as well as personal and collective metaphors inform her creative process- juxtaposing her internal world with the exterior landscape. There is an ambiguity in the visual experiencing of Melinda Jane’s work and her willingness to embrace the unknown and the emergent becomes a significant aspect of her creative process.
Melinda Jane’s recent mixed media work explores the intersubjective space between the felt sense of the body and the animate world, between self and other, between light and dark, time and place, conscious and dream state, stillness and movement, and the inextricable links between these elements.
Through an emergent process, she tends to the details of her exploration through a visual language that gently arises from her experience of being in the world, which is revealed through dreamlike layers of imagery, mark-making and the manipulation of shapes, texture and pigment.
