About

Email: jane.domingos@gmail.com

Twitter: @JaneDomingos

Instagram: @janelois

Jane Domingos is a British artist born in Leicestershire, where she is currently living after a long spell in Yorkshire as well as stints in London and Portugal.

Jane has an MA in Art & Design Studio Practice from Loughborough University and she is also a graduate of Leeds University where she undertook a BA in Art History & English Literature.

Jane has worked part-time as both a freelance fine artist and graphic designer for over 30 years while raising five children.

One of Jane’s works Promoted to Glory was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2011 in London.

Materiality, process and facture are integral to the expression of my themes. Current work is concerned with scale and the notion of the horizon and follows on from earlier work that dealt specifically with the final moments of life and the idea of a presence created by objects left behind. The work has been described as uncanny, surreal, serene yet ominous, possessing otherness, an intense silence bordering on airlessness. Visual tropes and materiality are used to add complexity and sophistication to the appearance of the two dimensional quality of the painted surface, the medium of oil being an excellent vehicle to further explore subtlety of surface. Different approaches to painting within the same constraints of medium, size and format are often employed to utilize some of the many techniques available to the oil painter. The concept of freedom opposed to captivity and the notion of the horizon as hope for a better other or an endlessly shifting boundary is an underlying theme of much of the work. Where freedom is dealt with in a very literal sense it is hoped it will provoke thoughts of a more metaphysical nature. The approach adopted for recent paintings has been in part a response to the non-sequitur of surrealism by a consideration of it’s converse, the cliche; the ritualization and predictability of human experience and emotionality. I am interested in the degree to which visual metaphors, symbols and motifs of representational objects operate as signifiers or function as signified concepts. Precipitated by the critique that the paintings bore similarities to the work of certain surrealist artists particular attention has been paid recently to the contextual framework of surrealism and the surrealists’ ambition to disrupt narrative conventions by liberating text or object from preconceived contexts. Essentially it is the ability of the human mind to transcend the physicality and fixed forms of the spatial and temporal world we inhabit that is core to my work.

Jane Domingos, October 2012

Leicester Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, Online; December 2020 - February 2021.

Refresh, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington; January 2020 - March 2020.

Winter Open Exhibition, Sock Gallery, Loughborough Town Hall, Loughborough, November 2019 - January 2020.

Leicester Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, New Walk Museum, Leicester; November 2019 - December 2019.

Winter Print Sale, Two Queens Studio, 2 Queen Street, Leicester; November 2019 - December 2019.

Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington; November 2019 - January 2020.

Worry Room Exhibition, Two Queens Studio, 2 Queen Street, Leicester; July 2019 - August 2019.

Two Queens Members Show, Two Queens Studio, 2 Queen Street, Leicester; May 2019 - June 2019.

Leicester Open Exhibition, New Walk Museum, Leicester; December 2018 - February 2019.

Leicester Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, New Walk Museum, Leicester; November 2018 - December 2018.

SOCK Gallery Open, Loughborough Town Hall, Loughborough; August 2018 - September 2018.

Two Queens Members Show, Two Queens Studio, 2 Queen Street, Leicester; May 2018.

A Study in Oil, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington; April 2018 - May 2018.

Leicester Society of Artists Beyond Words: An Exploration of Art and the Written Word, The Old Library Galleries, Leicester; April 2018 - May 2018.

Leicester Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, New Walk Museum, Leicester; November 2017 - December 2017.

Leicester Society of Artists Little Selves Exhibition, New Walk Museum, Leicester: March 2017 - June 2017.

Leicester Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, New Walk Museum, Leicester; November 2016 - December 2016.

Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington; September 2016 - October 2016.

Leicester Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, New Walk Museum, Leicester; November 2015 - January 2016.

Leicester Society of Artists Simply Drawing Exhibition, New Walk Museum, Leicester: January 2015 - February 2015.

The Buxton Spa Prize, Hardwick Hall, Buxton: September 2014 - October 2014.

Leicester Society of Artists Drawing on Words Exhibition, New Walk Museum, Leicester: December 2013 - January 2014.

Midlands Open 2013, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington; December 2013 - January 2014.

Nottingham Castle Open 2013, Nottingham; October - November 2013.

Leicester Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, New Walk Museum, Leicester; October - December 2013.

Solo Exhibition - Recent Work, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington; January - March 2013.

Midlands Open 2012, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington; December 2012.

Nottingham Castle Open 2012, Nottingham; October 2012. Recipient of the Tarpey Gallery Solo Show Award and also awarded the People's Panel Prize.

MA Degree Show, School of the Arts, Loughborough University; September 2012.

Leicester Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, New Walk Museum, Leicester; August 2012.

SOCK Gallery Open, Loughborough Town Hall, Loughborough; August 2012. Awarded the People's Choice Prize.

Connect Embrace Arts Exhibition, Richard Attenborough Centre, University of Leicester; July 2012.

Midlands Open 2011, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington; December 2011.

Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London; October 2011.

Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London; June 2011

"Entering the second room...the tumult of talent continues. Yet one piece stands out in particular. Through a Glass Darkly, by Jane Domingos is a large oil painting situated in the centre of the room, astounding in both its depth and detail. In this painting, Domingos portrays four beautifully rendered and intricate vases in front of a deep window of blue and black. Though the detail and skill of the painting is impressive, truly the most striking element within the painting is the sense of something just not quite right. The artist captures a sense of the surreal, her work subtly reminiscent of the ideas and obscurities of Rene Magritte, however far more delicate in the handling of the subject."

Jennifer Gleadell, review in Nottingham Visual Arts

Describe your practice for us

"Most people will know me as a painter but I actually do all sorts of stuff. I love design – I love having a problem that needs solving and finding a way to do that and that’s often how a painting starts. I set myself a challenge. When teaching about Monet’s use of a particular pale palette with no earth colours I set about painting the same scene in both daylight and at night but using exactly the same palette. I always find myself questioning whether something could be made better, work better, look better and will think of ways that could be achieved. I enjoy the materiality of painting and prefer to make my own stretchers, supports and frames if possible. I love the challenge of working with new materials but can happily pass time playing with materials I am familiar with – paint, fabric, clay. A lot of my design projects are for our home and garden where I am fortunate to have a partner who is willing to give my ideas a go and help me achieve a finished project. With five grown up children all with art practices of their own there is a lot of creative energy and knowledge to pool. I also enjoy writing and have been included in several publications."

Extract from Meet the Artist: Jane Domingos (full interview http://cvaneastmidlands.co.uk/meet-the-artist-jane-domingos/)