Jane Ianniello

Jane creates a variety of retro paintings. Her “Pulp” paintings incorporate images from the covers of cheap popular magazines of the 1930s to 50s that were designed to titillate and excite their audiences. These covers used an illustrative or comic book style. Often Jane places the scared or startled cover model into an incongruous or surreal background. Her "Mythology" paintings hark back to various literary and cultural sources, including traditional fairytales, gothic horror stories, and other myths that we all grew up on, and present them with a new twist. In Jane's "Wild West" paintings she appropriates movie stills of actors from classic Hollywood western movies of the 1940s and 50s and places the gun-toting protagonists in arid but beautiful desert landscapes. The mythology of the Wild West is based on the tough, self-reliant person who survives as best they can in the harsh and lawless frontier. Jane's paintings capitalize on the vibrant clean colors and glossy nature of acrylic paints and gels, and subtly incorporate iridescent metallics and bright interference paints. In the past decade Jane has sold hundreds of paintings worldwide, been a finalist in many art competitions, and exhibited in major Brisbane and Gold Coast galleries. Jane’s original paintings are included in many private international art collections.