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Following a
foundation course at East Warwickshire College, Jane studied
Furniture and Product design at Kingston University.
For fifteen years she worked as a designer with Geoff Hollington
Associates specialising in colour, materials and finishes on a
variety of furniture and product briefs ranging from Herman Miller
to Parker Pens and Kodak. In 2004 Jane became a full time
artist, working from Great Western Studios in London before
establishing her own studio in Chiswick in 2007.
Exhibitions
2006 Hepsibah Gallery, London – Group Show
2007 Shortlisted by Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Clarion Gallery, London – Winter Exhibition
2009 Lloyd Gill Gallery – ‘Identity Anonymity’ Exhibition
2010 Shortlisted for John Moores Art Prize, Liverpool
2012 Canvas Gallery, Wimbledon
Jane's current work is based upon travelling experiences that have
involved long periods in cars across several different countries.
Rather than reproduce the surrounding landscapes in a traditional
form, she represents the journeys in a less obvious way through the
various visuals clues along the road side. Road signs are
common features across all countries, sometimes to a universal
format other times uniquely peculiar to a location. Viewed as
glimpses, often subconsciously, during the course of a journey they
have a leveraged power of recall when played back as a part of a
whole story.
Over the past
five years as a painter Jane's work has tended to involve
multi-layering that has the effect of creating its own texture,
visual depth and contrast obscuring hidden images and inviting
discovery. Her enjoyment in creating the work comes from the
combination of hard-edged graphics with the painterly qualities that
gives a juxtaposition of order and mess. The occasional
misspellings and odd expressions lifted out of context give a
humorous edge. The challenge in doing this is to maintain the
senses of momentum and travel that evoke the memories of the
journey.
The
multi-layering technique adopted by Jane that give the pieces such
texture and depth is a painstaking process that results in each
painting taking several weeks to complete. There is obviously
therefore only a limited number that she can produce each year and
Enid Lawson gallery is delighted to have been given the opportunity
to exhibit this compelling work. |
