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Jane is a painter making work about the human presence; dream like forms and colour relationships are developed, often starting with suggestive accidental marks. She works in oil on canvas and in gouache on paper.
Jane studied at Leeds University in the 1970s.
"The painter Paul Gopal-Chowdhury was Gregory Fellow in Painting at that time. Paul taught us in the life room, where we set long poses, and worked on canvasses every day for up to a term. His teaching was electrifying. This was intensive work, where painting from looking was an adventure, full of discovery about the nature of looking itself, an analysis of how we see light and colour, and how perception itself was the determining force in making form, and values. I also studied Art History in Leeds, notably with Lawrence Gowing, then Tim Clark and Griselda Pollock. All of them were passionate historians with fiercely held convictions, all important influences for me, though it took me years to absorb the ideas, and to find my own direction.”
Jane lectures freelance for the Tate, on areas such as Cubism, Surrealism and Post War Paris; she particularly enjoys interpreting the collection with diverse audiences at Tate Modern. She teaches Art History at the National Gallery, the Courtauld Institute and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Recent projects include the first study trip to Paris for the University of the Third Age, and the mathematics and art project ‘Shadow’, where students studied art and the fourth dimension with Philip Kent at the London Knowledge Lab and Tate Modern.
Jane lives in London. She has one son a Staffordshire Bull terrier and a cat. To relax she enjoys walking, playing badminton and swimming.