Jane Everett – Birch (Understory series)

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Jane Everett, “Birch,” 2019

wood, wire and charcoal on drafting film/mixed media, 96" x 48" x 24" (photo by Yuri Akuney)

For Gallery Walk, Bugera Matheson Gallery will feature an installation called Birch.  Birch is a continuation of the Understory series, which was exhibited at the Kelowna Art Gallery earlier this year (March 9 to June 16, 2-19).

“Sixteenth-Century Japanese Buddhist painter Tohaku Hasegawa knew how to fill us with longing and empty us at the same time, with simple seeping ink and brush paintings of pines on rice paper. Contemporary B.C. artist Jane Everett’s work, especially her most recent, offers this same dual pleasure through her charcoal and conte-crayon images on drafting film, presented as glimpsed experiences of moments in nature. Imagery is not the point, although she and Hasegawa share a thing for trees. Neither of the two artists is really making work about trees. Both, through line, form and space, invite use to recall unnamed, unfixed longings – emotional and physical – we may not even know we have.” By Barbara Tyner, MA

The installation is explained by Jane Everett as “…A large-scale charcoal drawing of Birch trees is rendered on drafting film, sliced into strips, and suspended. The strips sway slightly in response to air currents in the gallery while the translucency of the drafting film allows light to come through so they can be read from all sides. The drawings are detailed and complex, influenced as much by Japanese sumi-e ink painting as by the tenets of traditional drafting. The result is an invented form to articulate the language of trees and their fragility in the context of our current logging practices.” Jane Everett