Jane Evans, In Heaven as on Earth, 1996, Lithograph. 47/115, 670 x 540mm (framed)

Estimate $500- $1000  

A whimsical scene by Jane Evans, a key figure in the Nelson art scene. Here, the airborne figures suggest a spiritual realm, though one in red—wearing a pointed hat—recalls a jester or clown. Evans developed an exuberant circus series in the 1980s after a touring circus visited Nelson, and that sense of play and energy returns here. The dreamy, floating figures, echoing one of her favoured European artists, Marc Chagall, re-emerge in this joyful vision