Jane Booth

I Ching Series: Tossing Coins 1  64 x 54

Part Color Field, part Abstract Expressionist, part Lyrical Abstraction--all wholly uplifting.  Jane Booth's large scale, delightfully happy canvases make me want to dance with wild abandon.  By pouring and pushing (often with her hands) paint directly onto raw, unprepared canvas, Booth achieves a blurred, out of focus effect.  The paint permeates the canvas, absorbs into it, bonds with it, giving the effect of a watercolor--although they are painted with acrylics. The effect of this pure color stain technique is often Helen Frankenthaler-esque:

Sand Hills  66 x 66

Evolve Series: Osmosis 32 x 42

Vessel  78 x 56   Looks like a "feminine Rothko"

Says Booth, "Drawing from vast skies and land that surround my hilltop (Kansas City, MO) rural studio, I'm interested in the space in which everything moves, and how the senses are touched.  I see painting as a snapshot from  the open aperture through which one peers" 

Mount Fuji  62 x 48

River 144 x 60  When this hung in Jane's home, she said they "drank in the blues"

Evolve Series: DNA Showing  54 x 42

Facet Series: Scattered  68 x 68

Often the enormity of Booth's inspiration demands and dictates her size of canvas-such as the large-scale "Channel", which is 142 x 65

Channel

The director of Kansas City Artists Coalition said "These paintings are so luscious you could eat them with a spoon."  I must agree. I'll have a triple scoop, please!

Jane

Click here to see Jane discuss her creative process in a beautifully produced short video

To see more of Jane's work, visit her website