Jane a exceptionally gifted artist and teacher, trained at Canterbury College of Art, Camberwell School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, where she won the David Murray Studentship in 1976. She exhibited widely including at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Festival Hall and Cadogan Contemporary. Her work ranges from London parks and European cityscapes to spiritually driven studies and the powerful series she created while embedded in Smithfield Market, which led to a BBC Woman’s Hour feature in 1985. Alongside her practice she taught at Camberwell and the Byam Shaw, shaping young artists with the same commitment she brought to her own work.
Her life was marked by periods of profound personal struggle, and she died in 1990, leaving behind a body of work of striking individuality and depth.
