Canadian painter Jae Dougall has evolved a unique and immediately recognizable style with high-keyed post-impressionist oils on canvas employing fluid lines, strong colours and patterning.
Much of the subject matter has strong angles and curves, with an emphasis on the edges of furniture and rugs, window frames, floor tiles, baseboards and entry ways. The compositions as a whole feel circular and in motion. Aided by the curve of a vase here, the bend of a chair frame there, a light-hearted use of perspective and plenty of foreshortening, the still life layouts seem to spin and dance with colour and light. The nudes and the figure studies are similarly fragmented and rhythmical, with angled perspectives and reflected colour. Unifying the subject matter is a strong contour line in complementary colours that both separates and unifies the parts of the compositions.