Jane's thread works/sculptures are the result of her conceptual responses to events highlighting/exposing the fragility of the human condition. How we are both connected and become disconnected - whether through global, community or individual events, by history/time, memory or communication.
She often works using wool, fishing line and thread/yarn, frequently using finger-knitting as a process. To Jane the finger knitted process embodies a primitive methodology, leaving her DNA on the sculpture as she works. To Jane, thread represents both a link to female connection in the past but also to fragility.
In her sculptural works Jane can be described as a process artist, using repetitive ways of making in creating the resulting artwork.
"I get my inspiration from a variety of sources - the news, books, major events, academic research, conversation, history, landscape, geography - basically anything and everything that connects to people.
When I finally work on something I nearly always have an intent behind the work. I can be quite anal about things, for example the lengths or colours of threads or the shapes can often have mathematical, historical, global or sociological reasoning behind them. Some works have a sense of sadness behind them - I guess this is due to the focus of my work being on human frailty, but some works necessarily focus on the joy in life or treasured connections."