Jane Tomlinson – portfolio

Contact the artist

https://janetomlinson.com/
07740 940859
jane@janetomlinson.com

Meet the artist

Exhibition information

I have taken part in Artweeks since 1999. I have been the Eynsham area Artweeks co-ordinator for 10 years. In 2026 I’ll be showing my work at Mill Street Arts alongside my brother Paul Tomlinson (drawings), and our friends Neil Mason (photography) and Julie Sailing-Free (painting). And you’re invited!

With such variety and talent, we feel sure that there will be something you’ll very much enjoy seeing.

As well as my original paintings, my work is available as signed prints, greeting cards, tea towels, jigsaws and coasters. I also make paper-mache birds! 

AWARD-WINNING MAPS

Since 2010, I have been hand-painting maps. They are ideal for expressing complex information and ideas.

• In 2016, I won a prestigious award from the British Cartographic Society for my map of the Shipping Forecast, ‘Attention All Shipping’.
• In October 2021 my ‘Bird Migration Map‘ was featured on the BBC’s Autumnwatch.
• In November 2024, my new painting of ‘Old Father Thames‘ won The Oxfordshire Museum’s ‘People’s Choice’ award, after being displayed at the museum as part of their Open Exhibition.

Copies of my maps are held in the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library Map Collection, and the UK’s National Meteorological Archive. Check out my entire map collection here. 

Artist information

I was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and travelled widely before coming to study in Oxford many decades ago. Eynsham in West Oxfordshire is now my home. 

WHAT INSPIRES ME

I make vibrant paintings inspired mostly by wondrous things from the natural world – birds, animals, trees, landscapes – plus geography, history, folklore, cultural references, and typography. Anything that takes my fancy! I am perhaps best known as a painter of quirky maps. 

My work blends realism and whimsical imagination which often results in a magical quality.

I taught myself to paint back in the 1990s. My ‘natural’ medium is watercolour, but I dabble with other media too. I especially admire van Gogh, Gauguin, Hockney, Matisse, and 17th century Dutch and Flemish artists.