Jane is an Eynsham-based artist and illustrator known for her vibrant, colourful paintings and hand-painted, quirky maps, often inspired by the natural world.
STYLE
Her work is characterized by vibrant colours, detailed observation, and whimsical imagination, often blending realism with a magical quality.
MEDIA
While her primary medium is watercolour, she also uses gouache, acrylics, acrylic inks, and the drypoint technique for printmaking. She loves to make paper-mâché birds
SUBJECTS
Her inspiration comes from nature (birds, animals, trees, landscapes), geography, history, literature (especially Shakespeare), and typography.
ARTWEEKS
She has taken part in Artweeks, Oxfordshire's visual arts festival since 1999, when her first exhibition took place from her first Eynsham home on Mill Street. She has been the Eynsham area Artweeks co-ordinator for 10 years. She will be showing her work at Mill Street Arts in May 2026.
WORKS & PRODUCTS
As well as creating original paintings, her work is available on items such as signed prints, greeting cards, tea towels, jigsaws and coasters.
She sells her work directly to customers through her website, and you will also find a small range of her goodies in the Market Garden & Cherry Tree Cafe.
RECOGNITION
Jane is particularly known for her hand-painted maps, one of which, "Attention All Shipping" (a map of the Shipping Forecast), won a prestigious award from the British Cartographic Society in 2016.
Her "Bird Migration Map" was featured on the BBC's Autumnwatch in 2021.
In 2024, her map "Old Father Thames" - a painting about nature, history, culture, folklore and folk memory - won the People’s Choice award in the Oxfordshire Museum's Open Art Competition.
Copies of her maps are held in the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library Map Collection, and the UK's National Meteorological Archive.
Jane's work hangs in private collections across the world - including lots in Eynsham!