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Product description

Threads and acrylic paint. 

My art practice is an exploration of line in 2D work. Having come from a traditional painting background I have reduced painting down to just lines and these have to contain everything. For over 10 years I worked in watercolour my painting became more graphic with the lines being important, in a sense my current style is a distillation of watercolour techniques used in oil paint.

Space in painting and its relationship to a human 'dimension' has always been an ongoing concern. The white lines in my work articulate space. The background in my work is deliberately undefined, unanswered. I have explored this change by thinking of it as a move backwards to a fragmented Medieval space. The lines are brittle, my urban environments are under pressure. The calligraphic marks in my work have come from drawing dense urban environments from high view points, the marks I use have become a sort of shorthand to create cities. I identify with the larger international Northern landscape tradition, in which light is important, colour tends to the monochrome. In my work the light is in the lines. This was an attempt at drawing with light and thinking about a photograph as if it were a drawing.

I turn perspective around. Rather than a spacial device I use it as an image. In much of the recent work the smallest units are at the bottom. The reason for doing this was to put the city under pressure leading to possible disintegration. I usually work on a portrait format to build up layers of archaeology, history rather than geography, and the relation of space to time.

Artists Biography
Jane Walker studied at the Royal Academy Schools 1987-90.
She received an Aeneas Travelling Award from the Royal Academy Schools(1990), a Lucy Morrison Memorial Award (1993) and a portrait commission to paint Sir Lawrence Byford from the Royal Overseas League. She was artist in residence on the cross channel ferries (1992) and was a prizewinner in the John Moores 19, Liverpool (1995).
Her solo exhibitions include; Doncaster Scene, D31 Gallery Doncaster (2023), Outside, Saddleworth Museum and Gallery (2023), City Lines, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield (2021), a review of this exhibition and a review of Doncaster Scene were written by Sean Williams and published on a-n reviews. Jane Walker Drawings, Mansfield Museum (2020).
Group exhibitions;
Graefe Art Concept, Graefe Gallery Berlin (2022), Anything but Paint, Fronteer Gallery Sheffield (2022), On the Surface, curated by prosaic97, Bloc Projects Sheffield.
Open and prize exhibitions include; Paper Art, The People’s Palace, Sofia, Bulgaria (2023), Derbyshire Open 2022, Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Lido Open, Lido Stores Margate (2022), This Years Model, Studio 1.1, London (2021 and 2023).