Jane O’Malley was born in Montréal, Canada, in 1944. From 1969 to 1990 she lived and worked as part of the artists’ community in St. Ives, Cornwall where she met and then settled with her husband, the painter Tony O’Malley. A member of both the Newlyn and Penwith Societies of Artists, O’Malley travelled frequently to the Scilly Isles, the Bahamas, St. Lucia and Lanzarote before returning to live in her husband’s home county, Kilkenny, in 1990. Her work is characterised by a rich, saturated colouration that is reminiscent of the places she has worked, and also by her interest in juxtaposing everyday objects against the landscape. The ordered rows of olive groves and furrowed fields are often viewed through window frames placed behind jugs and fruit bowls, giving her work an added depth that draws the viewer into the landscape and the painting.
Jane O’Malley has shown widely in the UK and Ireland, with solo shows at Riverrun Gallery, Limerick; Montpelier Studio, London; as well as Plymouth Arts Centre, the Salt House Gallery and Penwith Gallery in St. Ives. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Stour Gallery, Warickshire; Dyehouse Gallery, Waterford; Black Church Print Studio, Dublin; and the RHA Gallagher Gallery. O’Malley’s work is part of private collection in Ireland, America and Europe, and features in the public collections of AIB, Bank of Ireland, the OPW, Dublin City University, the Arts Council of Ireland, Prudential Life Assurance and Kelly’s Strand Hotel, Co. Wexford.
Exhibitions with Taylor Galleries:2009 Recent Work
2006 New and Selected Works
1997 Recent Work
1994 Recent Works on Paper
1991 Recent Paintings and Works on Paper
1987
1981 Jane O’Malley