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Jane Harington

Jane Harington


Jane Harington is a Saskatoon-based painter known for expressive oil paintings that explore the emotional resonance of landscape, florals, and place. Her international upbringing and later move to Canada inform her relationship to the Saskatchewan landscape, giving her paintings a layered sense of memory, distance, belonging, and longing. Working primarily in oils, Harington paints both en plein air and in the studio, drawing from direct observation, images, memory, prairie terrain, tangled brush, cut flowers, and large bouquets of blooms. Her paintings are recognized for their loose, gestural brushwork,
thick paint application, energetic mark-making, and bold color. She approaches the natural world through sensation as much as representation,
allowing the subject to open into mood, movement, and emotional association.

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Harington describes her work as an exploration of the emotional and gravitational pull of place, from distant horizons and tangled grasses to the lush presence of blooms. She considers the connections between people and the places that sustain them: those known, loved, or longed for. Floral imagery and landscape often overlap in Harington’s practice. Her bouquets can take on the expansiveness of landscape, with blooms, stems, and leaves arranged as fields of movement, color, and atmosphere. Her landscapes, in turn, often carry the intimacy and abundance of the garden, bringing together observation, memory, and painterly invention. Harington earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Great Distinction and Distinguished Exhibition from the University of Saskatchewan. Her art education also includes the Emma Lake Artist Retreat, figure drawing and painting through the University of Saskatchewan Extension Division with Degen Lindner, and watercolor painting with Paul Constable.
Harington describes her work as an exploration of the emotional and gravitational pull of place, from distant horizons and tangled grasses to the lush presence of blooms. She considers the connections between people and the places that sustain them: those known, loved, or longed for. Floral imagery and landscape often overlap in Harington’s practice. Her bouquets can take on the expansiveness of landscape, with blooms, stems, and leaves arranged as fields of movement, color, and atmosphere. Her landscapes, in turn, often carry the intimacy and abundance of the garden, bringing together observation, memory, and painterly invention. Harington earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Great Distinction and Distinguished Exhibition from the University of Saskatchewan. Her art education also includes the Emma Lake Artist Retreat, figure drawing and painting through the University of Saskatchewan Extension Division with Degen Lindner, and watercolor painting with Paul Constable.