Description
About the Artist:
Cecile Jadin has been expressing life with her art before she could write, drawing a portrait of her father before she learned the alphabet. Spent time sketching faces sitting in the classroom at university, in aeroplanes during her multiple flights, animals in national parks and while attending medical conferences.
Her desire to draw and paint is not an option but a genetic and profound need to embrace her feelings, which are demonstrated in colour, volume and light. She considers her palette knife and fingers as great tools to blend pigments with oils or acrylics to reach beauty and emotion and, unpredictably, to capture a moment.
Together with Willy Kreitz, the director of Middelheim Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, they have been drawing together for many years and attended the “Academie des Beaux-Arts” in Namur. Belgium.
Cecile’s work is published in “The Art and Artists in South Africa: The Collectors Guide” and in the “South African Art Information Directories”. Inco Nito is her pseudonym taken after her collaboration with the “Metropolitan Museum of Art” in New York, who wanted to differentiate her from medicine and the art world.
Successful Exhibitions:
- 1982 Group exhibition Pretoria South Africa South
- 1986 Solo exhibition Pretoria South Africa
- 1992 Group exhibition Johannesburg South Africa
- 1996 Solo exhibition Tournai Belgium
- 2002, 2005, 2008, 2012 Solo exhibition Johannesburg South Africa
- 2016 Group exhibition Tournai Belguim
- 2018 Solo exhibition Johannesburg South Africa
- 2019 Solo exhibition Antwerp Belgium
- 2022 Solo exhibition Johannesburg South Africa
- 2023 Group exhibition Namur Belgium
- 2025 Solo exhibition Johannesburg South Africa
Cecile’s paintings create a fusion of passion, emotion and luminosity under the vibrant austral sun. Her paintings are truly outstanding and unique, reaching love and intimate moments captured at their best. Her compulsion to capture images of the sun, the moon, chameleons, lost cats, dogs, wildlife, people, houses, squatters and migrants, portraits with a sparkle in the eyes, flowers and landscapes. Moving freely from abstract to figurative style.
