For 30 years, Jane has worked in arts education, most recently at Falmouth University, running a renowned A&D Foundation Course. Ongoing involvement with education continues as an External Moderator for University of the Arts London. Jane has organised many exhibitions and live projects for students and fellow artists working with the likes of the Newlyn & Exchange Gallery, Penzance; Falmouth Art Gallery and various museums. Before teaching, Jane worked as a freelance textile artist/designer in London.

With an MA in Fine Art Practice, Jane now works as a fine artist maker, creating artefacts and visual imagery in both 2D and 3D. Materials, all kinds of materials inform and become part of her work, these include metal, found objects, fabric, paper, paint, wax, glass and more recently film. Primarily working from the landscape, Jane finds inspiration from the ever changing light, corroded materials and remnants of human occupation.

The patina of human or elemental intervention, found in partially decayed or eroded objects are evident in much of her work. Trying to capture the essence of something broken, used, redundant, yet complete in its portrayal of time and place is central to Jane’s practice. The immediate, close landscape at our feet where you can find traces of other lives and other times, appear to spark a curiosity that ponders a connection between then and now. In the work you will find fragments of history, these remnants attempt to explore the delicate balance between past and present, as part of life evolving, as part of an ongoing reinvented existence.

A bottle dump, a derelict building, a corner of a garden, an ancient landscape, a museum, the remains of a fire and the seashore are all places Jane likes to explore. Each foray is made in the hope of finding something from the past that can be reworked and given a new form, a form that is of now, but always firmly rooted in and referencing a past existence.

Jane’s work has been shown primarily in galleries in the South West and has toured the UK with the Jerwood Drawing Prize. More recently, 2019, Jane exhibited at the Royal West of England Academy Bristol and the SWA Open. Being accepted by South West Academy as an Academician 2020 and joining the The Lizard Art Cooperative 2019 will provide the opportunity to regularly showcase the curiosities, diversity and individuality of Jane’s practice.

Website: www.janechetwynd.space
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