She worked in a film and photographic production house, creating advertising campaigns. While she enjoyed interaction with the designers, her work mainly concerned organisation and marketing. In Montreal aged 26, she created a very successful affordable line of furs for young women. She travelled worldwide taking fashion photos.

When aged 29, she decided to live in Paris and worked for several months at the Chambre syndicale de la Haute Couture, at the same time enrolling with a small school of art in the Rue de Rivoli. Her first pencil or charcoal drawings were made from models; mainly male or female nudes in caps. She tended to bring her sketches together on one sheet, thus creating concentrations of female bodies which would later become one of the characteristics of her work. The notes taken from her reading were often at the source of drawings in which plastic forms and texts were intertwined. Her taste for form and modelling led her to make her first real sculptures. She found happiness in drawing, an intense but rather lonely activity which suited her to perfection: “An irrepressible need to achieve peace with oneself in art and creation” (Kandinsky).

She worked with the sculptor Petrus de Vallauris, Sociétaire des Arts & Lettres de France. She met the Serbian painter Milan Cvetkovic.

First exhibition in Paris, Wilhelm Gallery Here she presented acrylic on canvas sketches of women featuring generous, sensual, soft and silky curves, very close to sculpture. Female bodies covered the canvas, bodies either nude or covered in a leotard like a second skin. Continuing her self-taught work, she attended exhibitions and read a lot. She liked to observe the world and nothing escaped her watchful eye. Several types of paintings came into being, some of which were almost Matisse-like in their lines and features and others more sombre in more closed, melancholic worlds. Colours began to appear but drawing remained the key element of each work. Some golden tint areas began to accentuate heads in the style of medieval paintings or icons. She also painted objects, vases illustrated with dancing women or totems formed of multiple female bodies. The style of her drawings became finer, her women became more slender and less plump. After researching form and composition, she worked on movement: a child curled up in its mother’s body or climbing up it, women walking with broken-down movement taking us back to Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase”.

Living in Monaco, she attended Jean-Christophe Maillot’s ballet rehearsals and made sketches which later became large paintings of ballerinas.

Second exhibition at Barclays in the Métropole Gallery with small framed drawings.

Large drawings. Indian ink, acrylic on canvas 2.2m x 1.2m

Exhibition and signing of the book “The Prophet” by Khalil Gibran at the Ribolzi Gallery, Monaco.

Jane Gemayel exhibited on the floors of EFG Bank in Monaco, presenting her series of female portraits, each named after a flower.

Jane Gemayel held her first exhibition in Dubai at the Pavillon de Monaco on 12 and 13 January 2022, with the support of the Grimaldi Forum. The Canadian artist presented a selection of her works, inspired by Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, to an international audience.

In the summer, Jane Gemayel flew to Rome to exhibit I Segni dell'Infinito for a month at the Galerie Bosi, the new contemporary space of the famous Maison Bosi.

Renowned artist Jane Gemayel is currently exhibiting at the Ribolzi Gallery. Her unique and evocative works provide a captivating experience for all visitors. Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to immerse yourself in Gemayel's inspiring creativity.