Jane Ostler

I was born in 1958 in Tonbridge, Kent, UK. I have three older brothers, Stephen, Nicholas and Timothy. My father was a lawyer and my mother was an actress.
I knew that I wanted to go to art school from the age of 8, as I loved to draw at the kitchen table while my mum was busy. I invented characters and had a vivid imagination, which obliterated the world of maths and latin and greek that my brothers were so immersed in. I loved acting and dressing up too, and listened to my mum's memories of her acting career in the Birmingham Repertory Co. and then as a Star in Battledress in India and Myanmar. My father was busy working long days in London.
When I left school I achieved my dream of going to Art School!
At first I planned to study Graphic Design, but thought that studying art in its purer form - Fine Art - would be more valuable, and that I might be able to use art commercially later. The need to draw from life and see how artists worked and thought was important to me.
I loved learning how to print and make films too.
In 1978 my mother died while I was at Corsham. Until then I had been unaware of how much I relied upon her constant love and support. Without her I became a more serious person, and more introspective...

1980 BA Fine Art Painting First Class BAA, Corsham, Wiltshire, U.K.
1986 MFA Fine Art Goldsmith's College of Art, London, U.K.

FINDING THE HAND OF KINDNESS
firstsite Colchester, UK. 12 October 2024-25 February 2025 with Leonora Carrington, 100 years of Surrealism.

STAY CONNECTED Virtual Exhibition
curated by Lois Emma Harkin, Norwich. 15 November 2020
https://loisemmaharkin.wixsite.com/

SPAGHETTI INTAGLIO, 12 -15 December 2019 Richmond Art School, Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College, Parkshot, Richmond Upon Thames, TW9 2RE

ART MAZE, 13 - 17 November 2019
Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, South Bank, London SE1 9PH

LIMBO, 4 May – 2 June 2019
Socially Engaged Art Salon, BMECP Centre, 10/a Fleet Street, Brighton BN1 4ZE

BREXITFEST: Satirical Political Art
March 29-31st 2019
The Fish Factory, The Sail Loft (Ground Floor), Commercial Road, Penryn, Cornwall,TR10 8AG

HOPE curated by Lelia Bibizadeh
26 February - 2 March 2019
Menier Gallery 51 Southwark Street, London SE1 1RU
MOVING TO THE COUNTRY
20 August - 14 September 2018
Level Best Art Gallery,
Colchester CO1 1LD

ARTCO INVITES
1 February - 1 March 2018
Level Best Art Gallery,
Colchester CO1 1LD
RESIDENT
37 Queen Street, Colchester CO1 2PQ
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL ART
7 -23 September 2017
Laura I.Gallery
IceHouse Court
Abbey Road, London, IG11 7BT
GIRAFFE DIPLOMACY 1 - 30 A...