An exhibition in Dallas with oil paintings inspired by
Jane Eyre 2011:
Dec.06.2025 - Jan.03.2026
James Cope Gallery, 4885 Alpha Road, Suite 120, Farmers Branch, Dallas
For her current one-woman show at James Cope Gallery (Rawlings’ 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.
“I’ve never painted from a film before,” Rawlings explains. “I do a lot of research and gather images I’m 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.”
Rawlings’ portraits show Jane sewing, reading or contemplating her uncertain fate. In each she occupies “an interiority and psychic space” belonging to her alone, Rawlings says. “One has to try to understand and reach through the image.”
After one of the works from the series was auctioned off at a recent event benefiting the Dallas Museum of Art, the remaining 12 portraits on view convey what Rawlings calls a “feeling of aloneness and mystery” that she deems just right for the reflective season of winter. Dreamlike and calm, they enchant the viewer as much as the (Kendall Morgan)
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