Jane Lewis
Jane Lewis was born in 1951 in Bedford. She studied Fine Art and English at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, graduating with a BA (Hons) in 1973. After teaching in Hertfordshire, she pursued a publishing career in London from 1978 to 1987 before moving to Suffolk in 1987, where she became a full-time painter in 1997. She works in oil, watercolour and works on paper (graphite, pastel and collage), focusing on abstract landscape and life drawing. She was made an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society (ARWS) in 2016 and elected a full member (RWS) in 2018, later serving as the society's Education Officer. Her work is held in collections including the University of Suffolk East Contemporary Art Collection, the Madison Museum of Fine Art in Georgia, USA, the Corinthia Hotel London, and the Colchester Art Society permanent collection. She lives and works in Boxford, Suffolk.
Artist Statement
Years ago I came across a watercolour by John Sell Cotman, The Drop-Gate, Duncombe Park. The pleasing simplicity of the subject, palette and composition has stayed with me and no doubt influenced my work. A few years ago my daily walk took me past a newly installed picket fence, and I was taken by the clean paleness of the wood standing out against the tangle of dark growth. Sometime after this I painted Picket White.