Jane Sproston

Drawing has always been my favourite artistic medium. I have sometimes struggled with my conflicting interests, Ancient Greece and Art and the direction that they have taken me. I did an art foundation course, started at Salford College and then continued at South Trafford college in 1993/4. I did not feel ready to pursue an art career at this stage, however I produced a series of photographs of derelict buildings and other structures around the West Didsbury area of South Manchester. I have always had a fascination with decaying buildings, unused places and their history. I find that a derelict building or abandoned area to be a perfect place to use my imagination. I spent a lot of time in the area of the disused old railway (now Metrolink) at West Didsbury and found the return to a previous natural state with trees and ponds thriving next to a past industrial era to be a source of inspiration. I also noticed that when such places have been discarded, often people on the fringes of society or even outside society move in to make it their place. Drug taking, homelessness, rebellious teenagers, alcoholics and glue sniffers used these forgotten places for their own purposes. This is probably why my drawings are often charcoa...

2014
-Sale Waterside Open Exhibition 2014
-Jackson's Wonders of Winter Online Exhibition 2014
-From Here and There (Swansea Elysium Gallery and Colorado USA) September-December 2014
-Warrington Open Exhibition October-November 2014
2015
-Draw your own conclusions, Art with a heart gallery, Altrincham, January-March 2015 (group exhibition)
-Think Differently, Art with a heart gallery, Altrincham, April-June 2015 (group exhibition)
- Bells from the deep, Hundred Years Gallery, London, June-July 2015 (open exhibition)
-August-September 2015 (group exhibition), ArtismUK, Stockport Gallery
-October 2015, Behind the Chain Link Fence (solo exhibition) ArtismUK Gallery, Stockport
-December-January 2015/6, A Christmas Carol (group exhibition) Art With A Heart Gallery, Altrincham
2016
-January-February 2016, Identity (group exhibition) Art With A Heart Gallery, Altrincham