Biography

Steve Jannar

 Phone:  02 9773 5719

Email:  steve.jannar@bigpond.com

STEVE JANNAR – ARTIST

Steve Jannar is a Sydney-based artist. He is essentially a figurative painter and his

earlier period was very much influenced by the Heidelberg School of Australian

Impressionists. Being an architect had contributed to the fact that many of his earlier

works included the built environment in the Australian vernacular. In recent years,

he has returned to painting in acrylic paint rather than oil, is painting on a larger scale

and freeing up his style – resulting in more dramatic works with greater impact.

He has exhibited in and around Sydney for many years and is also represented in

overseas collections. He had his first solo exhibition (‘Sydney or the Bush’ – oil

paintings of Sydney, NSW & Northern Victoria) at the Balmain ‘Watch House’ in

February 2004.

Most of his paintings in recent years have been ‘waterscapes’ – finding the element of

water to be a visual magnet that most people are drawn to as a preferred object of

view. Even as a ‘given’ view it can change its look quite radically in an instant

depending on the circumstance of light (reflection, shadow & translucency) and its

changing form, this dynamic being the cause of much of its beauty & appeal. Having

‘water’ as a common theme in his paintings makes Sydney a wonderful base from

which to work; especially Sydney Harbour, the Hawkesbury & Nepean Rivers, Port

Hacking and the Royal National Park.

Recent milestones include winning 1st prize in the ‘Landscape’ painting section of the

Sydney Royal Arts Show (Easter Show) 2007, a contemporary work on a classic

Bentley car for a Jane McGrath Charity Auction in 2008 and a finalist in both the

Mosman & Paddington Art Prizes, 2011.

He is currently working on his next solo exhibition which focuses on Wattamolla

(Beach) and the nearby areas of the Royal National Park (south of Sydney); and is

also organising an exhibition based on Rookwood (historic cemetery) in Sydney with

some local artists.

He is a member of Mosman & Bankstown Art Societies and has been involved with

instructional talks in & around Sydney.

September, 2011

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