Hi I’m Jane 

I’m a Bristol based artist and art workshop facilitator

Art to me is all about emotional expression…

It is a way of getting things out.  Things that I don’t have the words for. Things that I am processing and need to sit with, or want to find a way to record and remember.  

Art - in all the ways I use it - (photography, drawing, stitch, pottery, found objects), is just part of my expressive toolkit, which also includes expressive dance, yoga, journaling and therapy.

I make expressive abstract art

I like to just let go and let what needs to happen happen. Choosing a colour, a medium, a size of paper - letting go of any aesthetic or end result - and drawing until I feel that I’m done. I’d say it is the equivalent of free writing.

And I also make more considered, conceptual work

Which is a way of me seeing, accepting and understanding myself. I’ve used my art to process difficult emotions around lockdown, moving to a new city, and a period of my life living with chronic fatigue. But also as a way of acknowledging various aspects of myself - like being an introvert and a highly sensitive person. I think it is quite interesting making art alongside my continuously evolving sense of self.

If you would like to see some examples of my recent work you can do so here

My unique way of teaching has very much evolved alongside my art practice

And I would say that my facilitation style is very person centred and experiential. It has elements of everything that I have done before - from my work in staff development, training, team building and life coaching, to my previous training in psychodynamic counselling and art therapy. Plus echoes from the art foundation course I attended over 25 years ago - which I absolutely LOVED - and my own intuitive way of making art.