Jane Gibbens

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Jane Gibbens is a New Zealand-based artist whose work centres on light, precision and fine detail. Working across pen and ink and painting, she creates highly resolved pieces that reward close looking, with meticulous linework and carefully controlled tonal shifts forming the backbone of her practice.

Gibbens frequently incorporates gold leaf, using it not as decoration but as embellishment—amplifying light, enhancing contrast and introducing a quiet luminosity that interacts with the work.

With each new body of work, she explores different ways of creating luminosity, often through subtle and unexpected applications of paint that guide the eye and suggest light where none exists. Her practice is driven by a fascination with how light can be constructed, controlled and transformed through mark-making.