Artist Biography 

Jane Wray is an accomplished soft pastel painter and Associate Member of the Royal Art Society of NSW. Her works are of diverse genres where she enjoys, in particular, florals, cityscapes and still life. Wray’s works have been featured in Australian Artist Magazine and she is recognised in global and national exhibitions including the International Association of Pastel Societies and The National Capital Art Prize. She has been the recipient of several awards including many first prizes with the Pastel Society of Australia, the Camden Art Prize, Drummoyne Art Prize and also awarded at the Combined Arts Societies of Sydney. Her work is collected internationally and nationally. 

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Artwork Statement  

This collection of five still life works captures the power of the colour-saturated image and dynamic essence of beauty and wildness in floral works. The poppy is a recurring motif in Wray’s work. When growing up, her mother had a verdant garden full of poppies. The two poppy artworks together celebrate the flower’s simplicity, translucency, and its vivacious nature. Pink Cascade captures the beautiful draping attitude of cascading flowers as they await the travails of the climate. Wild shows the beauty of frost-affected wild grasses of the country roadside even in death throes. The quintessential gum blossom features in the collection to remind the viewer of Australian native beauty. Illuminate is a salute to the everlasting beauty of the natural world and the reminiscences they bring to mind.