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Jane Segrest is an artist and a southerner. Through
the years, these singularities have fused to produce a powerful body of
work. Perceptions rooted in childhood and the joy of discovery resonate
in her rich and complex paintings.
The signature treatment of color, characteristic in all her paintings, produces dynamic works exemplified in New Beginnings. New Beginnings presents airy, translucent colors that explode in brilliant concentrations.
Segrest’s water-based mediums and oils appear in private
and corporate collections. Through the use of arbitrary shapes
and luminous colors, ordinary subjects find new definition. Segrest’s
larger-than-life treatments explore form and detail. Her formal training and
willingness to experiment result in paintings that communicate a sense of the
exotic, yet familiar. Segrest’s
work is provocative and joyous. In her hands, even the most common subject
becomes new.