Jane Carpanini RWS RWA RCA was born in Bedfordshire in 1949, but lived in Wales for many years. She is married to David Carpanini, one of Wales’ most distinguished artists.
She has established a reputation for meticulous watercolours of landscape and architecture. Her paintings of mountains and castles juxtaposed with backyards and modest dwellings are in the collections of the National Library of Wales and the
National Museum of Wales, and it was with Welsh subject matter that she won the Hunting Prize for the Watercolour of the Year by a British artist in 1983.
Jane has exhibited widely and her work is in many collections both in this country and abroad. She is a regular exhibitor with the major Societies of which she is a member, and has served as the Honorary Treasurer and Vice-President of the Royal Watercolour Society indeed she was the first woman officer of this Society.
The habit of seeking out and expressing a visual excitement adapts readily to commissioned topography and her paintings of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges feature regularly in the 'Cam' and 'Oxford Today' magazines. Two books featuring these images have been published by Contemporary Watercolours Limited. Similar work has been done for a number of Schools and other commissioned subjects have ranged from private gardens to nationally famous commercial premises.
A love of the countryside in general has fuelled her creativity since childhood and images of a green and pleasant land are held by the Bridgeman Library. The artist herself has written many articles for journals and recently contributed to the ‘Watercolour Expert’ published by Cassell Illustrated. A continuing fascination with different visual challenges has recently resulted in series of images depicting scenes from Tuscany and Northern Italy.
"At first glance there may seem little to link a backyard in Llanberis with the arena at Verona, but I would describe myself essentially as an observer drawn to moments of fleeting informality just as much as contemplating the extraordinariness of the natural and built environment.
The traditional skills of drawing and painting are the nuts and bolts of recording information through the filter of personal artistic vision. A camera may of course tell a different truth to a drawing, but not a truer one.
There is surely nothing better suited to landscape than watercolour with its atmospheric luminosity and even after years of practice it is a thought provoking medium."
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