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Jane Eppel is a South African printmaker based in the Cape Peninsula. Graduating with a degree in printmaking from UCT in 2001, Jane’s career has subsequently followed a circuitous route, embracing oil painting, running a business, as well as collaborating with her husband, artist Nic Bladen.
Detailed and delicate, Jane’s monochromatic etchings are deeply autobiographical, using motifs from the natural world to explore the push and pull of events in her own life. Fascinated by the interconnectedness of all things, of the micro and the macro, in Jane’s work the strands of a spiderweb can allude to the imagined lines of a constellation or, conversely, the bonds of a molecule. The quietness of her prints belie the physical rigour of their making: etching is a very laborious process, and a work can take weeks and even months to complete.
Jane has exhibited her etchings in London and New York, and has had a number of solo exhibitions in Cape Town and Johannesburg, (most notably at Circa Gallery and the Irma Stern Museum). Her large-scale etchings can be seen currently at Everard Read Gallery in London and Franschhoek.