Artworks

Janet Brooke RE (elected ARE 1998, RE 2002)

City Lights

screenprint, edition of 15

paper size 42 x 30cm

image size 34 x 22cm

£160 unframed

Janet Brooke uses the urban environment as her inspiration. During her long career, this has taken many forms from the graffitied streets of East London and the towering presence of Canary Wharf to the ever-changing landscape of the City of London with old and new buildings rubbing up against each other.  Whatever it is, she tries to portray something of the essence of her subject matter without resorting to cliché.

City Lights, the screenprint she has produced for the Print Collectors Club is an evening view along a busy London street dominated by the Shard, the lighted windows and reflections of the various buildings and the bus contrasted sharply against a darkened sky. It follows in a series of prints she has made of this same iconic building. It started with a photograph which, after some manipulation, was then translated into two photographic stencils for the darker elements of the image which were printed last. To these she added several hand drawn stencils for the other colours with each of these stencils being used several times to produce the subtleties within each colour.

Janet studied printmaking at Birmingham and Brighton Polytechnics and taught printmaking for many years at Newham College of Further Education. She is a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and Printmakers Council and exhibits regularly with both of them.

Her work is held in several collections including Clifford Chance Art Collection, Museum of London, Jiangsu Art Museum, Open University, Royal London Hospital, British Gas and BP Oil.