Jane Wilson: Recent Watercolors and Oils

From April 27 through May 29, 2006, The Drawing Room is pleased to present an exhibition of watercolors and oils by Jane Wilson. At the time, Wilson divided her time between studios in New York and Water Mill, where the changing skies and seas were her primary subject for more than two decades. 

Characterized by low horizons and expansive skies, and often rendered in square compositions, Wilson’s vibrant oil paintings and watercolors explore the effect of weather conditions on cloud formations and the light and air surrounding them. While Wilson’s name is clearly associated with Eastern Long Island where she spends the warmer months keenly observing meteorological shifts and their impact, she also stands apart from other regional landscape painters. She has earned a reputation as a colorist who approaches representation of the natural world with the freedom associated with gestural abstraction. The thin strips of land or sea that occupy the bottom edge of her compositions emphasize vast skies observed over Long Island farm fields and the nearby ocean, and remembered from her youth in Iowa.

See below for full press release and selected works.