{"id":84626,"date":"2025-12-11T22:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84626\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:56:13","slug":"michelle-rawlings-portraits-of-jane-eyre-create-feeling-of-aloneness-and-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84626\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Rawlings\u2019 portraits of Jane Eyre create \u2018feeling of aloneness and mystery\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over her 13-year practice, Michelle Rawlings<\/a> has enamored collectors and critics alike with her intimate canvases, exhibited in galleries and museums from Los Angeles to Tokyo. <\/p>\n

\"Dallas-born<\/p>\n

Dallas-born artist Michelle Rawlings says her portraits of Jane Eyre convey a “feeling of aloneness and mystery” that she deems just right for the reflective season of winter.<\/p>\n

Tony Krash<\/p>\n

And no wonder \u2014 Rawlings\u2019 feminine imagery has an instant intimacy and emotion that ring true to anyone familiar with the private world of young women. Mining the same romantic territory as director Sofia Coppola, she has previously used ballet dancers, Chanel couture runway shows and fashion photography as jumping-off points for her meticulously crafted canvases. <\/p>\n

For her current one-woman show at James Cope Gallery<\/a> (Rawlings\u2019 first since 2023), she turns her eye to a classic heroine of page and screen. The 2011 movie adaptation of Jane Eyre, starring Mia Wasikowska, intrigued the painter, even if the only subject that mattered to Rawlings was Jane herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never painted from a film before,\u201d Rawlings explains. \u201cI do a lot of research and gather images I\u2019m interested in, and I was thinking about more somber interior spaces that you would see in 18th- or 19th-century paintings. The scenes were so beautiful, and they reminded me of the type of mood I was looking for.\u201d <\/p>\n

Rawlings\u2019 portraits show Jane sewing, reading or contemplating her uncertain fate. In each she occupies \u201can interiority and psychic space\u201d belonging to her alone, Rawlings says. \u201cOne has to try to understand and reach through the image.\u201d <\/p>\n

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One of Michelle Rawlings’ Jane Eyre portraits on display at James Cope Gallery.<\/p>\n

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After one of the works from the series was auctioned off at a recent event benefiting the Dallas Museum of Art<\/a>, the remaining 12 portraits on view convey what Rawlings calls a \u201cfeeling of aloneness and mystery\u201d that she deems just right for the reflective season of winter. Dreamlike and calm, they enchant the viewer as much as they remind their maker of \u201cthe importance of staying close to your heart and passion.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\u201cMichelle Rawlings\u201d is on view at James Cope Gallery, 4885 Alpha Road, Suite 120, Farmers Branch, through Jan. 3, 2026. <\/p>\n

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