Jane works in painting, drawing and sculpture using abstraction to express her ideas. She describes herself as a process artist who works conceptually and who is interested in human connection and frailty.
Through her art Jane explores our sense of connection; what we 'root' to or with; not just to each other but to: place, landscape/environment, our history, memories and social culture.
In exploring these connections she is interested in what happens when we become socially disconnected, when a rupture happens, such as: war, climate change, migration, loss, bereavement, ill health or social change; things that happen that provoke human frailty. She doesn't seek to make a social or political comment rather than to provoke thought and conversation.
Having previously studied History there is a significant nod to historical similarities in what she observes in the present, the sense of the circularity to life is prominent in her work and shape and form have developed into her own artistic language
Jane aims to disconnect time and place; for her it is as much about what is overlooked as much as what is visible on the canvas or contained in the sculpture.
"After 30 years of working in HR for the third sector, I thought I could at last focus on painting landscapes instead of focussing on people; how wrong could I be? It was only when released from the requirements of work I realised that fundamentally my passion was people."