When Doves Cry

Jane Jenevieve is a Sydney-based visual artist and composer creating immersive abstract works that explore perception, symbolic abstraction, and the observer’s role in shaping meaning. Working from her studio in Marrickville, Jane creates highly textural paintings that move between structure and intuition, often drawing on ideas of thresholds, memory, signal, story, and evolution.

Guided by the currents of image and sound, Jane’s work is shaped by intuition and by what feels alive in the moment. Each piece grows out of quiet attention, where thought gives way to instinct and the exchange between self and material becomes its own kind of language.

“When I’m painting, it feels less about making and more about allowing. The work moves in its own direction, and I follow quietly. Sometimes it feels as though something is travelling through, an impulse, a rhythm, a tone. I don’t try to define it. I just try to stay open long enough to let it land.”

“Occasionally, I wander into the unknown, only to meet myself there.”