A year ago, with the enthusiastic support of the Richmond & Twickenham Friends of the Earth group, some of us started Friends of Our Earth to look for opportunities to show work expressing our increasing concern about Climate Change and Biodiversity.​​​​
Last September I curated the Friends of Our Earth's first exhibition in the garden of J M W Turner's House in Twickenham. It was very successful.
Now we are putting together an exhibition about Water and Climate Change which we are expressing in many different ways.
Waiting for news of our water exhibition, I have reverted to nostalgia for flying. For example I have revisited a landscape viewed from the air that I started some time ago; adding more collage and revising my colours. It will be shown for the first time in RAG's "Do Geese see God' show at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith from March 25 to May 11.
In the past, learning to fly a glider taught me about the sky, the wind, the clouds, air pressure and thermalling. I love to express these in paint and my dream of flying with my mobiles.
Also I use my photographs, particularly taken looking up or down from the skies, in digital collages.
My uncle , a photoreconnaissance Spitfire pilot in WW2, gave me his flying logbook and started my interest.
Jane was brought up in Harewood Park, Yorkshire. She studied at Hornsey College of Art and in Manchester. Jane now lives and works in Twickenham, west London and has exhibited in in Beijing, Spain, Italy and Belgium and has had residencies in Hackney, Aldeburgh and New York.
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She had a solo exhibition at Greenham Common in 2022 and at the Cower & Newton Museum in Olney in 2021. She often exhibits with RAG (the Riverside Artists Group) in west London and Bad Behaviour in Brixton.
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