Janilaine Mainprize....Artist

By incorporating a variety of art disciplines and manipulating materials such as cloth and flotsam & jetsam I find that the challenge of bringing together different materials is often a journey on its own.  Like artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Cornelia parker and Joseph Cornell, I too balance the visual, physical and historical content, the connection of elements being an integral and vital ingredient.

These careful collaborations make me more aware of how I have to rely upon the aesthetics of juxtaposition. I feel strongly that as an artist, my personality is a key element of the finished product.  My fresh interpretations, relationships and links breathe new verve, virtues and significance into old and sometimes forgotten items and belongings.

My awareness of, and relationship with my surroundings is very important to both my work and to me and through these connections I seek to create and share new or renewed interpretations. By involving its previous life and history I try to recall distant memories, re-visit forgotten times, I then connect and create to share in the present. I am interested in how the fragility of my environment resonates with my personal experiences. My work often holds an internal narrative that I don’t always choose to share and I am constantly surprised by the links I find between these materials and how they evoke emotions and memories for the viewer or myself.