Artist Rooms Series at King Street Arts
Welcome to this occasional series where we at King Street Arts invite you into an artist’s world. We aim to give you an insight into their inspirations, source material, working processes, as well as the finished work.
We have known Jane for over three years and have seen her work grow during this period as part of her continued engagement with her processes as a serious-minded artist.
This body of work represents an exploration of a place, both specific in its felt responses to that place, but also playing with abstraction in representation and composition. Still readable as landscapes, they transport you beyond the materiality of place to the felt experience of being there.
Jane’s sketchbooks which are included in the gallery for you to see, show her consideration of process and the journey of making which each artwork undergoes to finish. Although lost in the finished surface, the underlayers with their rapid and immediate drawing are integral to her working methods and allow the subtlety of the finished form to emerge to the viewer, with its accumulated sense of time and experience. Each painting is a unique object, not reproduced in prints, echoing the original experience of the artist with that landscape.
