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Jane Eppel is a South African artist living and working in the beautiful suburb of Clovelly. A former painter, since April 2010 Jane has been exploring the medium of copperplate etching. Her love of plants and insects began at an early age and serves as both her inspiration and subject matter for her current etchings, exhibited most recently on a solo exhibition at the South African Print Gallery (August 2011).

'Eppel’s fascination with the spectacle of the ordinary balances mystery and clarity of minute detail, appreciation of the living energy within and the intense reminder of mortality. What is hardly visible to the human eye is intensified and cradled within the delicate strokes of Eppel’s etched lines and almost invisible embossing. Yet the complexity of life’s networks, from fragile spider webs and wing-veins of insects, to the constellation of stars in our universe is referenced as interconnected in the cosmos.'

extracted from a longer essay 'New Prints' by Jenny Altschuler
April 2011

Upcoming exhibitions:

'In Bloom II' an exhibition of works inspired by indigenous flora at the Casa Labia, Muizenberg (7 December 2011 - 26 February 2012) Tel: 021 788 6068

Work currently on display:

Dorp Street Gallery, Oude Bank, 10 Church Street, Stellenbosch (021 887 2256)
Kalk Bay Modern, 1st Floor, Olympia Building, 136 Main Rd, Kalk Bay (021 788 6571)
Ebony, 11 Huguenot Street, Franschhoek (021 876 4477)
Casa Labia, 192 Main Road, Muizenberg (021 788 6068)
In Toto Gallery, 6 Birdhaven Centre, 66 St. Andrew St. Birdhaven, Johannesburg (011 447 6543)
South African Print Gallery, 109 Sir Lowry Rd, Cape Town (021 462 6851)(