MARY JANE ANSELL Further InformationMary Jane Ansell graduated from Brighton University in 1994 and now works from her studio in the heart of Brighton's North Lane. Choosing to train originally as an illustrator for its focus on the narrative, her paintings have evolved to show a growing and very personal language. Her portraits of herself and others are often the representation of a keenly felt moment in time, the expression of emotions that resurface with as much power as the original.
After only beginning to seriously exhibit her work in 2002, the future shows great promise with appearances in the BP National Portrait Award 2004, National Portrait Gallery, The Daily Mails Not the Turner Prize and as prize winner in LondonArts Art of Love competition. 2004 also saw her first foray's into teaching portraiture with children, at Stanford Infant School during June's Big Arts Week and appearing on live TV, making a guest appearance on 28th July on CBBC's Xchange portraiture feature to mark the National Gallery's exhibition Making Faces. During Brighton’s May Festival she was short listed for the Brighton Festival Fringe Art Prize 2004
In 2005 Mary Jane won the Painting Award in this years Sussex Open at Brighton and Hove Museum, was selected for the Royal Society Of Portrait Painters annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London and a second selection for LondonArts ‘Art of Love’ competition held at the Oxo Tower Gallery, London. 2006 has promised to be just as busy, with an invitation to produce a portrait to be auctioned as part of The National Portrait Gallery's 150th Anniversary Gala celebrations raising money for future collections, and her upcoming first solo show at the Fairfax Gallery in Chelsea in June. She is exclusively represented by the Fairfax gallery.
Prizes and Award selections
2005 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition. Mall Galleries, Pall Mall, London.
2005 Sussex Open Award for Best Painting, Brighton and Hove Museum and Art
2005 Shortlisted for The Art of Love prize, LondonArt, Oxo Wharf Gallery, London.
2004 Selected for The Daily Mail Not the Turner Prize.
2004 BP Portrait Award, The National Portrait Gallery, London.
2004 Prize winner at The Art of Love exhibition, LondonArt, Arndean Gallery, London.
Exhibitions
Sept - Oct 2005 - Figure Show Fairfax Gallery, 23 The Pantiles,Tunbridge Wells.
July 2005 - Summer Exhibition, Fairfax Gallery, 5 Park Walk, Chelsea, London SW1
July 2005 - Summer Exhibition, Fairfax Gallery, Burnham Market, Norfolk
June 2005 - artLONDON
May 2005 - 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Fairfax Gallery, The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells.
April 2005 - Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition. Mall Galleries, Pall Mall, London.
April 2005 - Fairfax Gallery Chelsea Launch Exhibition, 5 Palk Walk, Chelsea, London.
March 2005 - Sussex Open, Brighton and Hove Museum and Art Gallery
Jan 2005 - Century Fine Art, Windsor. Berkshire.
Nov 2004 - Fairfax Gallery, The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells.
Nov 2004 - Brighton Art Fair, Corn Exchange, Brighton.
June 2004 - The Daily Mail Not the Turner Prize. The Mall Galleries, London.
June 2004 - April 2005 BP Portrait Award 2004, The National Portrait Gallery, London.
March 2004 - Correlation, The Old Seager Distillery, Deptford.
Feb 2004 - The Art of Love exhibition, LondonArt, at Arndean Gallery, Cork Street, London.
Selected Commissions
2005 - Fiona and Gabby Ireland
2005 - Paul and Udeni Salmon - Double portrait
2005 - David and Adity Coombs - portrait of Sabine
2005 - Tom Phillips
2005 - Belinda Lloyd - portrait of Florence
2005 - Jannette Radcliffe
2005 - Alice Rivers-Cripps
2005 - Fiona and Lucinda Ireland
2005 - Natascha Gianfranchesco
2004 - Mr and Mrs Peter Rose – Portrait of Emma
2004 - Mr Stephen Turner – Portrait of Finlay
2004 - Mr Kim Jones – Still life
2004 - Miss Eileen Cook - Portrait
2003 - Mr and Mrs Beglin – Portraits of Sam and Lucy Beglin
2003 - Mr Kevin Green - Portrait
2003 - Mr and Mrs Doe - Double Portrait
2002 - Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. (ASLEF)
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2002 - Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. (ASLEF)
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