Jane Ward
Jane Ward’s work plays – in her words – ‘with illusion and what’s real’. Created by digitally layering photographic and painted imagery, her luminous, highly detailed limited edition prints draw the viewer into hypnotic worlds that present beguilingly altered perspectives.
The starting points for Jane’s most recent works are photographs taken by the artist of urban and natural landscapes, often whilst travelling. Photographing through train or plane windows provides a membrane which ‘can add a strange murkiness’. Sunlight hitting water or patterns found in icicles and flames provide details that ‘sometimes we don’t notice, as we’re too busy looking at the ground’. These photographs are then digitally fragmented and layered with sections from Jane’s watercolour paintings to create kaleidoscopic images that combine abstract and figurative elements.
Jane graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2007 having specialised in printmaking after studying Fine Art at UCE, London. She has exhibited her work widely in solo and group shows in the UK and beyond, most recently in the 2022 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, and in ‘Three British Women Artists’ at Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland (2021). Her work has been awarded various prizes including The Terence Conran Foundation Award and the Tim Mara Prize both in 2007. In 2023 Jane’s work was selected for the International Print Exhibition, the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, and the Art Gemini Prize exhibition, all in London. She is based in Brixton, south east London.
We were delighted to launch three new limited edition works by Jane in our collaborative ‘Winter Exhibition’ at 155a Gallery, London in December 2022.