About the artist
Jane Masojada is a contemporary figurative artist specialising in portraiture. The colours and light of her early years growing up in South Africa feature in her paintings as does the analytical nature of her scientific background. Jane's aim is to describe what she sees in paint, whether that is the reality of the human presence in the form of a portrait or life study, a landscape or any natural form. Jane's undergraduate degree in Botany and Zoology underpins her understanding of anatomy and the patterns occurring in nature. Her work is an incisive language of drawing and painting based on intense observation in which she describes the angles and planes of a surface and how the play of light defines them, whilst simultaneously capturing the essence of her subjects in paint. Her paintings capture a moment frozen in time as well as a narrative, a history and a life story combined into a two dimensional form in paint on a canvas.
Commissions
Jane is currently based at the Old Bailey working on a series titled “A Year in the Old Bailey”. She continues to work on current commissions. If you are interested in engaging the artist please get in touch via the contact page of this website.
Prizes and exhibitions :-
2020 - July - Prospective show at The Lilford Gallery, Canterbury
2019 - July - Bee Painting sold at auction in aid of Bee Garden Party Auction
2019 - May - Solo Show, The Lilford Gallery, Canterbury
2018 - November - Sisters and Friends Charity Exhibition in aid of breast cancer, London.
2018 - September - Charity Auction in Aid of Disaster Relief in Guatemala - Painting sold st auction
2018 - Artist in residence at The Masterworks Gallery, Bermuda with a solo show titled "The People of Bermuda", May - July
2018 - “The People of Bermuda” Show Preview, London, May
2017 - Contemporary Portrait Diploma graduate show, The Art Academy, London.
2017 - The Royal Society of Portrait painters annual exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London.
2016 - 2nd prize in The Sir Philip Trousell Prize for portraiture.