photo: Guy Bellingham Photography
photo: Deborah Husk
About
Jane’s forty years of creative practice include paint, mixed media sculpture, print, ceramic and glass on a domestic scale; wrapped around 20 years as a couture milliner.
In new paintings and mixed media sculptures Jane is curating her own art, the work of other makers she has chosen to live with and curious found and imagined objects. These works are ‘cabinets of curiosity’ of the 21st century.
Jane lives and works in Berkshire, England. As a night owl she often works quietly to the sound of owl calls in the birch and oak trees outside her garden studio.
Jane is represented by ‘Gallery At Home’ in Wales
“Curiosity is my best feature and I believe curiosity is the core of creativity.”
This website marks a settled reopening to the world for Jane, sharing her work again after a few years of necessary retreat to overcome depression and breast cancer. Creative practice kept her afloat and she emerges with mindful gratitude and renewed creative energy.
“I have a creative plan for this year, and beyond, and I am immensely grateful to those who have stuck with me and to those reconnecting or discovering my work for the first time, all welcome!”
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Exhibitions
Forthcoming
2025 Gallery At Home two artist show Feb/Mar
Previous
2024 Bath Art fair 13-15 September
2024 Gallery at Green and Stone, London 30 July-30 August
2024 solo pop up at Gallery At Home 8-14 July
2024 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2023 group show ‘Material Process’ North Cumbrian Collective at Kendal Museum Gallery, Cumbria
2023 group show ‘Botany’ Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
2017 group show REWIND Wells Art Contemporary, Wells
2017 solo show ‘Regrowth’ Mount House Gallery, Marlborough, Wiltshire
2016 group show ‘Threads’ Salisbury Arts Centre
2016 group Winter Show Lingwood Samuel Gallery, Godalming, Surrey
2016 Edinburgh Art Fair with Art Salon, Bath
2016 group show Wells Contemporary Open, Wells
2016 shortlisted for the NAOC and RWA open.
2016 group show Bath Open, Bath
2016 group show MOS Preview, Mount House Gallery, Marlborough, Wiltshire
2015 Affordable Art Fair with Dunbar Millais
2015 Solo stand at Select Showcase Cheltenham
2015 Solo stand at Handmade at Kew
2014 group show Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
2013 solo show ‘Myth and Memory’ at Craft Central, London
2012-14 Exhibited and demonstrated at Art in Action, Oxfordshire
2011 solo show ‘Costume Reliquaries’ Bridge House, Hungerford, Berkshire
1996 group show Hartlepool Art Gallery
1996 solo show X-Site Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
1995 solo show ‘Sanctuaries and Disclosures’ Corbridge Gallery, Northumberland and Forum Gallery, Cramlington, Northumberland
1993 solo show ‘Passion, Faith and Spirit’ Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Education/Development
2021-23 Online writing courses and workshops including with Arvon and NCW
2023 Woodblock printing course with Laura Boswell Scotland
2022 print workshops with Linden Print, Cumbria
2019 Glass casting course with Angela Jarman, Welling Garden City
2018 Casting Master Class with Angela Jarman at the Glass Hub, Wiltshire
2018 awarded a place to study Ceramics and Glass at RCA London (unable to take up the place for health reasons)
2017 Foundation Course at the Glass Hub in Wiltshire
2016 Pewter casting workshop at London Sculpture Studio
1996-98 Studied couture millinery with Rose Cory in London
1980 BA Hons (Fine Art) Newcastle upon Tyne University
Employment
2019 Studio assistant for glass casting course with glass artist Angela Jarman
2017 Research and development of clay surfaces for resin casting for Watson and Gabb, Wiltshire.
2015 and 2016 Short Course millinery tutor at West Dean College, Chichester and visiting millinery tutor at Kensington and Chelsea College
1998-2018 Couture Milliner designing and creating bespoke hats from my shop in Hungerford Berkshire.
1996-1998 Worked part time for Herald and Heart Hatters in London and then full time for John Boyd Millinery in London.
1991-1993 Development Officer of Watatu Art Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya
1989-1991 Administrator of Tyne International ‘A New Necessity’ a multi-site international art exhibition in Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead curated by Declan McGonagle
Awards
2016 Prize winner at Wells Art Contemporary
1999 Northern Arts Cultural Business Venture Grant
Collections
Numerous private collections