JANE EPPEL
JANE EPPEL, Sanctum
copperplate etching (hardground), 68.5 x 68.5 cm
Jane Eppel is a South African printmaker. Graduating with a degree in printmaking from the University of Cape Town in 2001, Eppel’s career has subsequently followed a circuitous route, to include printmaking, oil painting as well as collaborating with her husband, artist, Nic Bladen.
Detailed and delicate, Eppel’s monochromatic etchings are deeply autobiographical, using motifs from the natural world to explore the push and pull of events in her own life. Fascinated by the interconnectedness of all things, of the micro and the macro, in Eppel’s work the strands of a spiderweb can allude to the imagined lines of a constellation or the bonds of a molecule. The quietness of her prints belies the physical rigour of their making: etching is a very laborious process, and a work can take weeks or months to complete.
Eppel has exhibited in London and New York and has had several solo exhibitions in Cape Town and Johannesburg, most notably at the Everard Read galleries and the Irma Stern Museum, South Africa.
JANE EPPEL, Wherever I’m with you
copperplate etching (hardground), 68.5 x 68.5 cm
Jane Eppel is a South African printmaker. Graduating with a degree in printmaking from the University of Cape Town in 2001, Eppel’s career has subsequently followed a circuitous route, to include printmaking, oil painting as well as collaborating with her husband, artist, Nic Bladen.
Detailed and delicate, Eppel’s monochromatic etchings are deeply autobiographical, using motifs from the natural world to explore the push and pull of events in her own life. Fascinated by the interconnectedness of all things, of the micro and the macro, in Eppel’s work the strands of a spiderweb can allude to the imagined lines of a constellation or the bonds of a molecule. The quietness of her prints belies the physical rigour of their making: etching is a very laborious process, and a work can take weeks or months to complete.
Eppel has exhibited in London and New York and has had several solo exhibitions in Cape Town and Johannesburg, most notably at the Everard Read galleries and the Irma Stern Museum, South Africa.
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