“Jane graduated from the Tasmanian School of Art, in 1984, when it was situated at Mount Nelson, in the hills above Hobart. After graduation, Jane spent an extra year enrolled in the printmaking department learning to etch and eventually she completed two Masters degrees, one in painting and one in lithography.
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Jane’s plein air, and studio work, is influenced by the Australian landscape and the people and animals who work in it. Life in the bush, mountains and rural universes fills her lungs and mind with the scratch and grit, the heat and wind and vibrating,freezing air which keeps her work full of the verve she desires. The human animal progresses on its merry go round and yet behaves self destructively. Like a feral creature, a virus, it is a wonderful organism in uninhabitable places. Struggle is perpetual and defiant; it keeps Jane moving. ”