Jane graduated with a first-class honours degree in Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in June 2025. She was awarded the Sandra McNeilance Memorial Award for Drawing and Painting.
Jane works oil paint onto canvas in expressive, figurative and energetic marks. She is interested in Post-Impressionist aesthetics within an existentialist philosophical context.
Pink goats exist amidst violet and vermillion. In her exhibited work, she considers Van Gogh and Gauguin’s world perceived by them. She considers Maurice Merleau-Ponty within the context of her work. Paraphrasing Maurice Merleau-Ponty: As a painter her vision is not a view upon the outside, the world no longer stands before her as a representation, but the things of the world give birth by a coming to itself of the visible. The immediacy of the painting emerges as a communicative response to each brush stroke.
