THE ART OF :JANE-LOUISE: KELLAHAN.
THE ARTIST
Wellington born, Wanaka-based artist Jane Kellahan has 25 years experience to back herself up with. Her evocative, atmospheric and thought-provoking paintings, often conveying an environmental message, have won her numerous national and international accolades. Crafted onto canvas, paper and wood, Jane’s work incorporates organic materials gathered from the southern lakes district with sensuous oils and mediums and 24ct gold leaf to create compelling visual textures that convey depth, potency and an exquisite dance of light. Jane also creates ceramics, sculpture and photography and regularly runs creative workshops for children and adults.
Jane is currently writing a book called "Boots and All".
“Jane’s work is atmospheric, virtuosic in its use of paint, rich in technique and conveys a relentless search to explore the essence and physicality of her medium.”
Vincent Ward, Film Director/Artist, New Zealand
WORKSHOPS
These workshops will help you paint freely, emotively and give you confidence and direction. Jane will take you through the planning process, teaching you a safe proof method of how to make a great work of art. She draws on her 25 years’ experience of developing unique techniques and processes helping you prepare a canvas and bringing it to life.
One day, one - $500
One day, no more than four - $420 each
One day, no more than eight - $300 each
All art materials supplied excluding art boards. Workshops can be over two days. For children's group, please contact Jane on Jane-Kellahan@protonmail.com.
COMMISSIONED ARTWORK
AVAILABLE
THE GRAND CROSSING
120 x 150 cm, OC, $18,000
RELEASE
100 x 100 cm, OB, $8900
SOLD
PC - Private Collection, AC - Artist Collection, OC - Oil on Canvas, OB - Oil on Board, OP - Oil on Paper
THREE PEACOCKS
140 x 210 cm, OC. AC. With a powerful contrast of cadmium yellow and french ultramarine over delicate silver leaf. This stunning painting shows three peacocks displaying their dance of dominance before mating.
SPRING
120 x 150cm, O/C 24ct gold leaf, PC Auckland
LEY LINES
60 x 80 cm, O/B, PC Wanaka
RAINFALL
2018, 60 x 80 cm, OP, PC Wellington
Overall Winner of Wanaka Arts Society
SANDBANKS
2019, 94 x 123 cm, OC, PC Christchurch
NEW SEASON
2017, 60 x 60 cm, OB, PC Wanaka
FLOW
2021, 60 x 80 cm, OB, PC Brisbane
THE SWEET TALKER
2013, 110 x 80 cm, OC, PC Auckland
THE MANORBURN
2018, 60 x 80 cm, OB, PC Queenstown
KOKAKO'S
2015, 120 x 80 cm, OB, PC Australia
KOKAKO
2010, 30 x 30 cm, OC, PC Wellington
THE GREAT ESCAPE
2015, 150 x 180 cm, OP, Special Mention Award, London Biennale 2015, PC London
CROSSOVER I
2021, 150 x 180 cm, OC, PC Wanaka
SKIPPERS
2019, 63 x 93 cm, OC, PC Christchurch
CALL OF THE MOUNTAINS
2018, 100 x 130 cm, OC, PC Waipu
SHALLOW WATERS
2003, 100 x 100 cm, OC, PC Auckland
STANDING ON THE SHORES OF HOPE
2006, 120 x 120 cm, OC, PC Wellington
WHAT LIES BENEATH
2018, 100 x 100 cm, OB, PC Wanaka
BEYOND SEAS
2015, 100 x 100 cm, OC, AC
RELEASE
2003, 120 x 120 cm, OC, AC Finalist, Post Picasso Gallery, USA
THE GOLD MINERS DAUGHTER
2019, 100 x 100 cm, OB, PC Wanaka
WHITE WICKETS
2009, 120 x 120 cm, OC, PC Australia
Overall Winner, Australian Cricket Art Prize
INDIAN QUEEN TO WGTN 1857
2016, 100 x 100 cm, OC, PC Wellington
TUI'S HEAD
2010, 30 x 30 cm, OC
PC Wellington
BOLTON TO NELSON
2016, 100 x 100 cm, OC, PC Wellington
SOUTHERN LAND
2018, 60 x 80 cm, OC, PC Wanaka
AVALANCHE III
2018, 60 x 80 cm, OB, PC Wanaka
CLUTHA
2018, 76 x 102 cm, OC, PC Wellington
LAND OF A SOUTHERN MAN
2018, 60 x 80 cm, OC, PC Wanaka
THE CROSSING II
60 x 80 cm, OC, PC Tauranga
THE WATER THAT FELL
2011, 60 x 80 cm, OB, PC Wellington. Third place in the Leonardo Prize works on paper category. Biennale of Chianciano, Italy
HAWK WATCH
2017, 60 x 80 cm, OB, PC Twizel
WATER CALLS
2021, 60 x 80 cm, OC, PC Wanaka
PASSION
2001, 100 x 100 cm, OC, PC Auckland
AUTUMN FALLS
2015, 100 x 100 cm, OB, PC Australia
FALCON FREEDOM FIGHTER
60 x 80cm, OB, PC NZ
VOLCANIC FIELD MEXICO II
2009, 120 x 120 cm, OB, PC Wellington
REDLAND CALLING
2013, 100 x 100 cm, OB, PC Wellington
ELLY & THE ACID TRIP
Tusko was the first male elephant from the Oklahoma Zoo to be given LSD (makes you wonder if the researchers werent on the gear themselves). His dose was administered in a scientific experiment led by researchers at the University of Oklahoma in 1962. Tusko was injected with 297 milligrams of LSD - an enormous dose. He began to sway, his hindquarters buckled. Five miniutes after the injection he trumpeted, collapsed, fell heavily onto his right side, defecated and went into status epilepticus. He died two hours later. - No words to how stupid people can be.
JOKIA (1960 - )
Jokia used to belong to an illegal logging camp. Forced to work while pregnant, she gave birth to her baby while pulling a large log uphill, wearing heavy logging chains. She was not allowed to stop working to tend to her newborn, or even to see whether or not it was alive. By the time they returned, her baby was dead. After that, a depressed and heartbroken Jokia refused to work. While trying to force her back to work, her keeper blinded her.
When her rescuer, Lek, first came across Jokia in 1999, she was roaring and trumpeting in pain and anger. Covered with infected wounds and scars from past beatings, she had tears running from her blinded eye and empty socket. Now settled into her new life at Elephant Nature Park, Jokia has found an elephant friend, Mae Perm, who protects and guides her. In 2003 Jokia gave birth to a baby named Hope.
TUI'S PATH (RED)
2015, 100 x 100 cm, OB, PC Queenstown
ONCE A BROKEN HEART
2016, 100 x 100 cm, OB, PC Wellington
PLUM DELIGHT
2019, 100 x 100 cm, OB, PC Australia
REMEMBRANCE
2015, 100 x 100 cm, OB, PC Wanaka
BLOSSOM
2015, 60 x 120 cm, OB, PC Shannon
ASTEROID
2015, 120 x 120 cm, OC, PC Wellington
STORMLINES
2018, 100 x 100 cm, OB, PC Australia
SURRENDER
2020, 120 x 150 cm, OC, PC Wanaka
PAIGE HAREB
2015, 120 x 120 cm, OB
THIS PAINTING HAS BEEN STOLEN FROM WANAKA REGION
BRAIDS AT LAKE PUKAKI
2020, 120 x 150 cm, OC, PC Wellington
SOUTHERN LAND III
2018, 50 x 50 cm, OB, PC Wanaka
SOUTHERN LAND II
2018, 50 x 50 cm, OB, PC Wanaka
JACOB'S LADDER
2021, 100 x 100 cm, OB, PC Christchurch
TUI'S PATH (BLUE)
2010, 150 x 150 cm, OC, PC Auckland
GABRIEL'S GULLY
2019, 100 x 130 cm, OC, PC Arrowtown
AVALANCHE II
2018, 32 x 44 cm, OP, PC NZ
CROSSING PATHS
2020, 30 x 37 cm, OC, PC NZ
THE GREAT FLOOD
2020, 60 x 80 cm, OB, PC Wanaka
DIVIDED
2020, 30 x 37 cm, OC, PC NZ
GATEWAY
2020, 30 x 37 cm, OC, PC NZ
RESTING PLACE
2020, 30 x 37 cm, OC, PC NZ
CANYON I
2020, 48 x 63 cm, OC, PC Wairarapa
REBIRTH
A second chance at life, sage birds guide and protect towards a new beginning
2013, 200 x 150 cm, OP, PC Wellington
MENAGE A TRIOS
A textured and theatrical celebration of lust, love and heartbreak
2013, 200 x 150 cm, OP, PC Wellington
THE SUPERMOON
2013, 150 x 170 cm, OP, PC Wellington
NATURE STUDY I
2017, 80 x 60 cm, OP, PC NZ
THE UNMASKED MAN
2010, 180 x 150 cm, OP, PC USA
SILENT LAMB AND THE WEEPING MOON
2015, 60 x 80 cm, OC, PC Wellington
THE UNMASKED MAN II
2010, 180 x 150 cm, OP, PC NZ
UNMASKED MAN AND THE PEACOCK
Nurturing the vulnerable self as one reveals their true identity
2013, 120 x 120 cm, OC, PC NZ
THE TALE OF CAPTIVE COCK
Exposing the fake ones, the immitators who never reveal their true identity but later get sneared and captured by their own bs
2013, 120 x 120 cm, OC, PC NZ
WALKING ON THE MOON
2001, 100 x 100 cm, OC, PCA
THE DIFFERENCE OF ME
1999, 100 x 100 cm, OC, PC United Kingdom
SOUL IN THE CITY
Exisiting as the strawman without even realising it
2013, 100 x 100 cm, OC, PC NZ
LIGHT FOR LUCIEN
2001, 100 x 100 cm, OC, PC Wellington
LONDON BLITZ 1940
2000, 100 x 160 cm, OP, PC Wellington
OTHER MEDIA
POETRY
MANIFESTATION
I sat by an old tree and felt its energy, I imagined its wisdom through the rings of time. If only it would share in me, secret stories of healing, through its twisted roots that grow below. Autumn came, it shed and cleansed, and drifted off to sleep. In a dream it would manifest, vibrant green leaves and big apples, brightly red. Spring arrived and proud in flower, a gust of wind sent its whisper to me... "Pick up your shield, full of faith, stand strong and manifest your dreams. For their is hope in future freedoms, through evidence not yet seen"
MEET YOUR STRAWMAN
Semen, Seaman, Doctor, dock. Waters break, berth canal, born day, berth day, birth day. Boy, buoy bobbing in the sea. A quick prick in the soul. You're worth your weight in gold. Our lands are really waters. Waterways, highways, freeways. Carports, loading docks, traffic islands. I sea, i see, we are vessels lost at sea. Where is that gold we were owed at birth, stolen by the pope. Birth cert number - stock exchange. Our gold is worth millions, upwards slope. Proof is in the paperwork. A certificate that may appear boring. The secret lies at the bottom, black ink, small print, reads WARNING"This certificate is not evidence of the identity of the person presenting it" Realise, the real lies, with your real eyes.For the deception and trickery happened at birth, before you even touched the earth.
