Painting

New York

Jane McNichol is an artist living and working in the East Village of New York City. She works in oil on canvas as a figurative artist. Her inspiration is rooted in the post-impressionist artists. She is drawn to the strong colors and expressive compositions of artists like Cezanne and Bonnard. Jane is a native of Philadelphia where she studied studio arts at Temple University and spent a summer in Rome at Tyler School of art. Following the path of French artists, she was drawn to working directly from nature in places like Bucks County, PA and the New Jersey coastal wetlands. Upon moving to New York City in the late 1980’s she moved her art practice indoors to a shared studio with her artist husband in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This studio environment allowed her to create larger canvases, inspired by the deep open spaces of the mid-western United States. She is a MacDowell Fellow, a Pollack Krasner recipient. She is drawn to the natural light in Down East Maine, working from nature and investigating artists like Marsden Hartley, John Marin and Fairfield Porter. Currently she is working in an East Village studio on East 10th Street, where her inspiration includes the streets of New York – the people, places and things that surround her daily. She continues to exhibit her work nationally.