“Jane Bustin's paintings are minimal, simple abstracts of subdued colour.” Jane Bustin’s Holloway Road (2005), oil on aluminium, demonstrates perfectly the interplay of light and shadow. I found this a most attractive piece as the reflective silver aluminium contrasted with the deep matted black invokes a personal reaction within me: indeed, these are colours which represent me most. Looking at the piece, I kept the title in mind, “Holloway Road”. I found that the way the light is swallowed into the black area of the rectangle and is reflected back from the pure, shiny, luminous aluminium deeply representative. Bustin has produced a piece which truly exudes a long straight road; the tarmac represented by the deep black, the horizon, melting and shiny under the heat of the sun conveyed by the aluminium. Her clever use of oil on the aluminium creates a wonderful contrast with the metal. She embodies within this piece the properties of tarmac, being ‘matt’ in texture, but as the light shines on it, a greasy, almost hot wet texture appears, although, it is assumed, the paint is dry.
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