Rietveld’s Red / Blue Chair Print

Jane was born in Hampshire, UK and currently lives in South West London. She worked in publishing (Thomson Publications) and advertising (J.W. Thompson) before pursuing an art education in the 1990s. She then developed her studio practice in London and, for many years, in Barcelona. Jane moves fluidly across different mediums—photography, film, installation, sculpture and painting. Since 2010, painting and sculpture have become her primary occupation. She has exhibited extensively across Europe (see below) and was selected to exhibit at the British Brazilian Cultural Centre in Sao Paulo, Brazil (2004) with a sculptural installation piece. Her work is included in both corporate and private collections. ABSTRACT PAINTINGS Jane is a conceptual artist. Her work is urban-based and future-led, rooted firmly in the traditions of 20th Century abstraction. Her aim is not to lecture or dictate, but probe, inspire and stimulate, for the spectator to see something different each time they look at a canvas, ultimately sharing in her joy of creativity. Jane's palette is restricted to mainly three hues of blue. This has led to a tantalising range of colours and has become the pulse of her paintings. Blue is timeless, full of contradictions. It is historically the colour of royalty and nobility, the Virgin Mary, cops, pornography, and melancholy. It’s the colour of the sea and sky, of deep shadow, and cold bruised skin; the denim of cowboys, and the “Mao suit” of Chinese peasants. It is the colour of heaven, an open door to the soul, an infinite possibility becoming tangible. Blue bursts with energy. It asserts itself in our emotions. Its joyousness is capable of lifting our lives to another level. Jane uses mathematics to achieve compositional harmony. She creates new forms, planes, shapes and colour out of a logical system of spatial calculations; different colour compositions allow her to attain a variety of seemingly simple but complex paintings. Jane is concerned with form rather than literal representation, taking inspiration from daily observations of urban life: the grids of the streets and contemporary architecture and how the light reflects off glass, steel and water. The mathematical variables are the frames within which she works and makes sense of the urban world.