Jane Peart

After graduating from art college I worked in a design studio in London before moving to Oxford in 1978. I took up etching after completing a printmaking course at the Oxford Printmakers Co-operative.

My ideas for prints often arise from animal and bird studies and I find using the medium of etching enables me to show the detail and texture of the skin, fur or feathers of the subject. Other inspiration comes from my immediate surroundings, small glimpses of everyday scenes or places I have visited in England or abroad. My work includes multi-plate prints where several plates are combined to make a final print. I aim to portray the characters of the animals I am drawing, or to capture the mood of a scene that has inspired me, striving to create the texture and feel of the subject.

Commissions These include books, brochures, information panels and a series of drawings for a property development company in Oxford. I was commissioned by The Oxford Radcliffe NHS Hospital Trust to make a 42-plate etching depicting hospital life – architecture, people and technology. I have also completed a commission of a series of etchings and paintings of a large house and gardens in Hampshire.

Collections Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Thomas’ Hospital, London and The Oxford Radcliffe Hospital Trust.

I am a member of Oxford Printmakers and the Oxford Art Society

Exhibitions:

2001 RBSA - Pastel and Pencil Drawing Exhibition
2002 Mall Gallery, London - National Print Exhibition
2002 Printspace Bankside, London
2003 RBSA - Contemporary Print Exhibition
2003 Contemporary Art Fair – Battersea
2004 Antwerp Art Fair
2004 RBSA - Contemporary Print Exhibition
2004 Brighton Art Fair
2006 Brighton Art Fair
2006 Mall Gallery, London – Originals
2009 Windsor Art Fair
2011 The North Wall Gallery Oxford
2011 Edinburgh Art Fair
2012 Printfest Ulverston
2012 Buyart Manchester
2013 Artfest Kendal
2013 Buyart Manchester
2014 Obsidian Art
2014 Buyart Manchester
2014 Affordable Art Fair, Bristol
2016 Affordable Art Fair, Bristol
2017 West Dean Art Fair
2017 Affordable Art Fair, Bristol
2018 Printfest Cumbria
2018 Rheged Centre, Great Print Exhibition, Penrith
2019 TY Pawb International Print Exhibition, Wrexham
2019 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
2003 – to date annually at the Affordable Spring Art Fair Battersea
Oxford Art Weeks
I regularly exhibit with The Oxford Printmakers and have shown work at The Ashmolean Museum, Christchurch Picture Gallery, Linacre College, Woodstock County Museum, Radley College, The Said Building, Green College, Dorchester Abbey, The Brewery Arts Centre Cirencester and galleries throughout the UK