Hi I’m Jane 

I’m a Bristol based artist and art mentor, who uses art as a form of ongoing self exploration.

My art practice to me is….

  • Part of who I am

  • An expression of myself - pure, real, and emotional

  • Seeing, exploring, accepting and understanding myself

  • Saying what I need to say

  • A conversation with myself

  • A need that I have to satisfy (whether I like it or not)

  • A space to be parts of me that are hard to bring into other aspects of my life (but I’m working on that)

  • A journey - which is constantly evolving, and has no end point

  • And something I need to maintain a relationship with (and that relationship is always changing too)

Building a collection of portraits of lost toys - because there is something about them I find really quite emotional. Imagining the owner who lost it - and the forlorn toy keeping an eye out for its owner. It’s a collection that’s slow
My responses to an alternative, 3D, experimental life drawing workshop today - Life Forms - run by @sam____lucas @fra_beecher @explorist_2 I was trying out ways of bringing in my idea of creating self portraits using my hand, but instead using my h
Making a series of works based on unexpressed childhood feelings / trauma - where there are no tangible memories, just a feeling. #emotionalexpression #arttherapy #print #blackandwhite #trauma #memories #feelings
Too much??! So this piece (or these lovely earrings even), are a cardboard representation of my art practice as it currently stands. I was introduced to this fab exercise / challenge by the lovely @emmagregorymakes on her Press Play course a few yea
I'm just updating my website, and thought I'd share with you what I've been popping on there about what my art practice is to me. My art practice is...... * Part of who I am * An expression of myself - pure, real, and emotional * Seeing, explorin
More visually appealing things I’ve been spotting on my walks around Bristol recently. Building up quite a collection now. So many pleasing things to look at it turns out! #bristol #foundart #dailyphoto
More (almost) daily drawings - getting stuff out. I’m always really intrigued by the drawings that end up quite minimal - like I don’t have much to say emotionally that day. I always have a lot to say verbally!! Planning on printing p
So the theme this month, in the creative meet-up I’m part of, was camouflage. And here is my contribution. I wanted to somehow capture the process of blending myself in with the wall behind, but actually it become more about the process of se
Just a few of the interesting things I’ve spotted on my walks in the last few weeks. I’m loving collecting all these little snapshots - and I’m resisting printing them out and categorising them yet, as I don’t want to influe
I’ve been trying morning pages again, as suggested by Julia Cameron of The Artist’s Way. BUT instead I find that doing a drawing a day suits me much better. It does the same job - getting the general gubbins and emotions out! It’s
New beginnings … Starting to take pictures of things that jump out at me / interest me when I’m out and about on walks. I’m collecting pictures - and it’ll be interesting to see what common themes - if any - come out. Plu
A few little drawings from the last few weeks - at home and on hols in France. Just drawing what I fancied - with no conscious thought behind what I chose. I think the window ones must have been influenced by @emmacliftonbrownarts fab drawings. Qui