Jane Harris' highly controlled paintings play with our perception of space and depth. In Pine the surface is textured with precise brushstrokes that catch and hold the light. The green and blue suggest land and sky, the blue reads as a void, the green as solid. The elliptical forms suggest lily pads, or the jaws of a trap, organic and mechanical at the same time.Harris uses architect's templates to create both her paintings and drawings. She has described her working methods in the following terms:'I have a list of rules for myself, and thepaintings are created within the limitations Iprescribe...The paintings are always madeup of small units of brush-marks whichmake up the whole surface.They are also made up of four to five layersof paint. So in that sense there is a processgoing on, but only as a means to an end.This process leads each painting to have itsown character'.