Hello, i’m jane
A textile and mixed media artist, based in Linlithgow, Scotland.
I use a range of techniques and materials. For my stitched textiles I tend to either paint or print the fabric first. I especially love breakdown screen printing and have managed to have a set up in my studio to enable this. I then add layers of other fabrics and/or papers and end with a hand stitch as a tactile top layer.
My journey.
HOw it all started
I was that kid who would endlessly draw and make things. And I was always interested in my immediate environment, it probably started with dolls houses. I had my own and then two more handed down from my sisters so I had a whole street to play with!
Outdoors with my friends we created dens to hide in and places to keep our ‘stuff’ safe.
Fast forward to adulthood
I didn’t follow a creative career path so when I got the opportunity to do my City & Guilds Creative Textiles I jumped at the chance and have never looked back. My creativity had never really left me and I’m still interested in buildings, streets, towns, cities, how people live in their environment and how it makes them feel. This is me.
Qualifications & Associations
- City & Guilds Creative Textiles
- Member of Edge Textile Artists Scotland
- Member of Indigo Tracks Mixed Media Group
- Member of Edinburgh Urban Sketchers
- Member of The No Rules Textile Society
My work.
I love to visit different places and I love the buzz of a city, the sights and the sounds. At times it can be too much of a stimulus but I tend to find calmness in the patterns of the buildings, the lines, the light and shade, the textures.
Inspiration
The built environment finds its way into almost all of my work, from abandoned buildings to modern skyscrapers and everything in between… brutalist office blocks, gothic arches, railings, bridges, steps …even graffiti. It’s all line, pattern and texture to me and it’s my experience of these places that I seek to express through my art.
Layers
My Venice work lends itself to the addition of plaster in order to achieve the worn flaky textures on fabric. For my mixed media on board I build up the layers with acrylic paints, wax crayons, thin collage papers and textured mediums.
