Jane has been singing, painting, and writing for as long as she can remember.
Jane’s music and art explore the interior and exterior landscape. Her songs are about nature. connection and, most of all, love – in all its different forms, guises, and disguises. Art is a language that transcends as well as embodies the everyday. It’s a contradiction that resonates and expresses so much.
So many artists have moved and influenced Jane over the years:
Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, Björk, Mozart, Debussy, Beethoven… to name but a few; painters such as Frida Kahlo, Matisse, Van Gogh, Picasso, Georgia O’Keeffe; and so many writers and poets… Margaret Atwood, Emily Dickinson, John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Maya Angelou, Wendy Cope, Shakespeare, Ben Okri… the list goes on.
Art is a language that transcends as well as embodies the everyday. It’s a contradiction that resonates and expresses so much.
Jane’s work conveys what she sees and thinks and feels – sometimes from her own experiences; sometimes from her imagination. Nature often influences the art she produces – for example, Jane has been captivated by trees for quite a while now. Usually, her work is multi-layered and somewhat metaphysical/ surreal in its composition and the concepts that underpin, consciously, or unconsciously, what she does.
In Jane’s music, she loves quiet harmonies that may suddenly surprise and her lyrics sometimes begin as poems or organically join the melodies in her songwriting. When painting, Jane often uses mixed media and enjoys experimenting with texture and shading to create an overall feeling or impression. She also believes that colour has extraordinary emotional power, and can be used subtly or more overtly to communicate a mood or sensibility.
