About
I make 2-D art work, that relates to landscape painting. For a long while I made drawings of cities, now the work is abstract. I put structures in the surface then gradually fade them with horizontal lines. When the upright structures have become too difficult to see I put in new structures and repeat the process. I used to call the horizontal lines, fast lines, they come from some of my city drawings that were made with one restless fast line. I like the marks in a painting to link. The energy in the horizontal lines pulls particles across the surface, they make a 2-D plane in a landscape space.
Gradually I am decreasing the amount of new materials I use. The works on paper and canvas have re-cycled elements and some of the paint I make from plants, sand or ground brick. I also use things like fruit netting from fruit bought and packaging from sugar, cereals. The design of the packaging repeats architectural structures on a micro scale. Composition is a mathematical arrangement that relates to music, but I am becoming increasingly interested in the sound that surrounds me. This is influencing the direction my art is going in.
I have spent time looking at Bridget Riley's painting 'Rise' in the Graves Gallery, Sheffield and this has influenced my recent work.
Education
2021-24 Turps Correspondence Course
1987-90 Royal Academy Schools
1984-87 Sheffield Hallam University
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Horizontal Lines, The Old Chapel Gallery, Sheffield
Searching Lines, Aire Place Studios Gallery, Leeds
Lining Up, Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, Redcar
2023 Jane Walker, Saddleworth Museum and Gallery
Doncaster Scene, D31 Art Gallery, Doncaster
2021 City Lines, Fronteer Gallery Sheffield with an essay by Sean Williams
The Hamburg Series, Arts For Health Milton Keynes University Hospital
2020 Jane Walker Drawings, Mansfield Museum
Lines, Jane Walker at Pop Up Scunthorpe
Personal Notes, Kunst Quartier Leonberg, Stuttgart
2018 Lines, 20:21 Visual Arts Centre Scunthorpe
Jane Walker at Jordans Solicitors, March 2018, Wakefield Artwalk
2017 Discovering the paintings of Jane Walker, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2016 'City Lines', Garbos, Southsea, curated by Sticks Gallery
2011 ‘In Turners Footsteps’, Museum & Art Gallery, Nuneaton
2007 ‘Short Frieze’ Atkinson Gallery, Southport
2004 Bloc space, Sheffield
Group exhibitions
2024 Night & Day, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield.
Nottingham Street Art Festival, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2022 Meet the Locals, Fronteer Gallery Sheffield
On the Surface, a micro exhibition by prosaic 97, at Bloc studios, Sheffield.
Three Artists, Fronteer Gallery
2021 The Examiners, a micro exhibition by Prosaic97, Fronteer Gallery
2020 Borders, Future Landscapes, The Room Contemporary Art Space, Venice, Italy
2019 Sound Image, Surface Gallery Nottingham Katya Kvasova, Russell Terry, Trevor Simmons & Jane Walker
O Tempo, Other Sounds Other Places, Gois Portugal
Warp Shift, Jane Walker (drawings) & Chris Williams ( sculpture), Workers Gallery, Porth
Contemporary Art & Ritual, The Crypt Gallery London
2018 Chapter 1, Art Number23, The Old Biscuit Factory Bermondsey London
Art Show, Soda, Sofia Bulgaria with World of Co
Woman Shall Inherit the Earth, Panacea Museum Bedford
Exhibition Practice, Art House Wakefield
2017 The Gathering, a residency and exhibition at Crux, Wakefield
Antennae, Lubomirov /Angus-Hughes, London
Layers, AIR Worldof Co exhibition, Sophia, Bulgaria
2016 Colorida Art Gallery, Lisbon
ARTery, curated by Plastic Propaganda, London
Sugar and Spice, St. Katharine Docks, London
Alternative Nature, Electric Picture House, Congleton
2015 A Space Between, Stone Space, Leytonstone, London
Voeux d'artistes, Marseille
Black on White, Oriel Gallery, Clywd Theatr Cymru, Wales
Overlooked, Park Hill Estate, Sheffield
Engagement & Entrapment, Smart Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
Paper Art, Art Alley Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2014 Painting Now, One Church St Gallery, Great Missenden
Essential Elements, St Brides Gallery, Liverpool Biennial Independents
5th Paul Ricard International painting Symposium,Ile de Bendor, France
'Lost', an artistic archaeology of the recent past, Salisbury Art Centre
2013 Nuances Parisiennes, Musee de Beaux-Arts de St Petersbourg, Russia
Visions of Yorkshire, The art station, Huddersfield train station
Cities; All Dimensions, Tokarska Gallery, London
2012 Begehungen 9, In der Zwischenzeit, Chemnitz, Germany
The Schools, ex RA students from 1950-90, Beverley Art Gallery
2011 ‘Artists at Home & Abroad’, Broadway Gallery, New York
2010 ’Refracted Landscape’, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
‘Paint’, Beldam Gallery, Brunel University, Uxbridge
Urban Voids and Absences, turn-berlin gallery, Berlin
2009 Artists in Residence 09, Chapman Gallery, Salford University
Fete Picasso-Small Art Objects, Vallauris, France
2006 ‘Urbia’ Sheffield University
‘Roderic Barret and his students’, Chappel Galleries, Chappel
2005 ‘Fold it’ Stroud House Gallery, Stroud
2003 Paintings in Hospitals, Sheridan Russel Gallery, London
2002 Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax
2001 ‘Urban’, York City Art Gallery
1999 Space 99, Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield
1995 4 artists from London, casa de la cultura, Aguilas, Spain
1991 Gray Art Gallery, Hartlepool, ‘regeneration of the waterfront’
Prizes, awards. Open submissions
2024 Members Show, Studio 1.1, London
Town House Open, London
Southwark Park Open
The Big Art Show, Paisley
Open Exhibition at the Minories, Colchester
Higher Bandwidth, Shat Gallery, Skelmanthorpe Library
2023 Spring Exhibition D31 Art Gallery, Doncaster
Members Show, Studio 1.1, London
Redcar Summer Open, Redcar Contemporary Gallery, Redcar
The Big Art Show, The Art Department, Paisley
Festival of Street Art, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
Stockport Makes, Stockport Open 2023
2022 The Harley Open, Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Worksop
Members Show, Studio 1.1, London
Towns and Cities, Open Gallery, Halifax
Home, The Open Gallery, Halifax
Landscape, Open Gallery, Halifax
Open Mind, Open Gallery, Halifax
Summer Exhibition, Open Gallery, Halifax
Summer Exhibiton, D31 Gallery, Doncaster
Anything but Paint, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
PAINT! Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
Moray, Mapping and Memory, members exhibition, The Moray Arts Centre, Findhorn, Scotland
The 38th Derbyshire Open, Buxton Art Gallery and Museum
A Green Gathering, The Green Man Gallery, Buxton
We are Here, Artspace, Cambridge
The Raven Open, Raven Gallery, Mexborough
Give me Love, Lido Stores, Margate
The Lido Open, Margate
Autumn Exhibition, D31 Gallery, Doncaster
Rhythm; Art in Conversation with Music, The Storey, Lancaster
2021 Lancaster Music Festival Art Exhibition
The Lido Open, The Lido Stores, Margate
Abstract, Fronteer Gallery Sheffield
Refresh, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
This Years Model, part III, Studio1.1, London
In the Open, Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole, North Yorkshire
Summer Open Exhibition, D31 Gallery, Doncaster
2020 Royal Cambrian Academy open exhibition, Conwy, Wales
2019 Wales Contemporary, Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven, & Mall Galleries, London
Hull Open, Ferens Gallery, Hull
Paper Art Festival, The Peoples Palace, Sofia
2018 NN Open, Northampton
Hope & Home, Workers Gallery, Porth, Wales
Hull Open, Ferens Gallery Hull
Waterside Open, Waterside Arts Centre, Sale Manchester
2017 Amateras Mini Paper Art Exhibition, Gallery Finesse, Sofia, Bulgaria
Lichfield Art Prize, finalist, Lichfield Cathedral
Legend, Moma Machynlleth, Wales
[Kun:st}Preis International, Galerie Kerstan, Stuttgart
Small Faces, Solent University Gallery, Southampton
2016 Peterborough Open, highly commended award, judged by Sarah Brown,
Dale Devereux Barker, Yasmin Canvin
International Postcard Exhibition, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2015 Neo Art Prize, Gallery 27. Bolton Market Place, Bolton, selected by
Ian Davenport, Amira Gad, Margot Heller, and Helen Phelby.
Shoosmiths Art Prize, Milton Keynes Arts for Health selected by
Baroness Wall, Sophie Hall, Julia Alvarez, Gary Assim.
Oriel Wrexham selected by John McClenaghen
2014 9th International Biennial of Drawing, Pilsen, Czech Republic
2013 Finalist, Modessqe 1st painting contest, Skwer, Warsaw
The Big Draw at Tokarska Gallery, London
'Drawing' Salisbury Art Centre, Salisbury
Ludlow Open, Ludlow selectors; Christopher le Brun,
Ann de Charmant, David Keaton-Roberts, Nathaniel Pitt
2012 Neo Art Prize, Bolton selectors; Kwong Lee & Aileen McEvoy
2011 Arqadia award for a work in monochrome, Society of Graphic Fine Art
2010 ArtWorks open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London selected by
Timothy Hyman & Graham Crowley
2009 Drawn In, Sidcot Arts Centre, Winscombe, Somerset
2005 Jerwood Drawing Prize selectors; Stephen Farthing, Martin Kemp,
Dr Sarah Simblet
1995 John Moores 19, prizewinner selectors; Frances Spalding, Timothy Hyman,
Basil Beatie, Alex Kidson
1992 Lucy Morrrison Memorial Award, Royal Overseas League
1990/2 Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions
1989 Aeneas Travelling award (Royal Academy)
Bibliography
2021 City Lines review written by Sean Williams published on a-n Reviews
2017 Nottingham Post, April 15th
2016 Digging into the Quicksands of Time, Anna McNay, http://art-corpus.blogspot.com/
2015 Overlooked, Introduction by Paul Allender, Sheffield University
Interviewed for 'Provence TV', SIAC Marseille, France
2014 Review: Essential Elements, St. Brides Gallery, Liverpool text by Sinead
Nunes posted online by Lauren Velvick September 14, 2014
The State of Art, Landscape & Portrait #1, Bare Hill Publishing
The State of Art, Representational & Abstract #2
2013 Modessqe Art Magazine September, Cracow
2012 Tribe Magazine, online international creative arts magazine Issue 1
New York Arts Magazine Spring 2012
Begehungen no.9, Chemnitz
2007 David Briers, text for 'Short Frieze'
Collections
Societe Paul Ricard, Bandol, France
Beldam Gallery, Uxbridge University
Royal Overseas League, London
Private Collections:
London, Marseille, Bordeaux, Mulhouse, Colmar, Vallauris, San Sebastien, Chemnitz, U.S.A., Manchester, Colchester, Sheffield, Southport, Liverpool, Plymouth, Ludlow, Newhaven, Eastbourne
sales in 2024
2 pieces sold by the Lido Stores Margate
1 watercolour sold by The Green Man Gallery, Buxton
1 oil painting sold in the Street Art Exhibition, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
1 oil painting sold from the Big Art Show, Paisley, Scotland
2 oil paintings sold from my solo exhibition at APS gallery, Leeds
2 watercolours and 2 oil paintings sold from my solo exhibition at the Old Chapel Gallery, Sheffield
Gradually I am decreasing the amount of new materials I use. The works on paper and canvas have re-cycled elements and some of the paint I make from plants, sand or ground brick. I also use things like fruit netting from fruit bought and packaging from sugar, cereals. The design of the packaging repeats architectural structures on a micro scale. Composition is a mathematical arrangement that relates to music, but I am becoming increasingly interested in the sound that surrounds me. This is influencing the direction my art is going in.
I have spent time looking at Bridget Riley's painting 'Rise' in the Graves Gallery, Sheffield and this has influenced my recent work.
Education
2021-24 Turps Correspondence Course
1987-90 Royal Academy Schools
1984-87 Sheffield Hallam University
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Horizontal Lines, The Old Chapel Gallery, Sheffield
Searching Lines, Aire Place Studios Gallery, Leeds
Lining Up, Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, Redcar
2023 Jane Walker, Saddleworth Museum and Gallery
Doncaster Scene, D31 Art Gallery, Doncaster
2021 City Lines, Fronteer Gallery Sheffield with an essay by Sean Williams
The Hamburg Series, Arts For Health Milton Keynes University Hospital
2020 Jane Walker Drawings, Mansfield Museum
Lines, Jane Walker at Pop Up Scunthorpe
Personal Notes, Kunst Quartier Leonberg, Stuttgart
2018 Lines, 20:21 Visual Arts Centre Scunthorpe
Jane Walker at Jordans Solicitors, March 2018, Wakefield Artwalk
2017 Discovering the paintings of Jane Walker, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2016 'City Lines', Garbos, Southsea, curated by Sticks Gallery
2011 ‘In Turners Footsteps’, Museum & Art Gallery, Nuneaton
2007 ‘Short Frieze’ Atkinson Gallery, Southport
2004 Bloc space, Sheffield
Group exhibitions
2024 Night & Day, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield.
Nottingham Street Art Festival, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2022 Meet the Locals, Fronteer Gallery Sheffield
On the Surface, a micro exhibition by prosaic 97, at Bloc studios, Sheffield.
Three Artists, Fronteer Gallery
2021 The Examiners, a micro exhibition by Prosaic97, Fronteer Gallery
2020 Borders, Future Landscapes, The Room Contemporary Art Space, Venice, Italy
2019 Sound Image, Surface Gallery Nottingham Katya Kvasova, Russell Terry, Trevor Simmons & Jane Walker
O Tempo, Other Sounds Other Places, Gois Portugal
Warp Shift, Jane Walker (drawings) & Chris Williams ( sculpture), Workers Gallery, Porth
Contemporary Art & Ritual, The Crypt Gallery London
2018 Chapter 1, Art Number23, The Old Biscuit Factory Bermondsey London
Art Show, Soda, Sofia Bulgaria with World of Co
Woman Shall Inherit the Earth, Panacea Museum Bedford
Exhibition Practice, Art House Wakefield
2017 The Gathering, a residency and exhibition at Crux, Wakefield
Antennae, Lubomirov /Angus-Hughes, London
Layers, AIR Worldof Co exhibition, Sophia, Bulgaria
2016 Colorida Art Gallery, Lisbon
ARTery, curated by Plastic Propaganda, London
Sugar and Spice, St. Katharine Docks, London
Alternative Nature, Electric Picture House, Congleton
2015 A Space Between, Stone Space, Leytonstone, London
Voeux d'artistes, Marseille
Black on White, Oriel Gallery, Clywd Theatr Cymru, Wales
Overlooked, Park Hill Estate, Sheffield
Engagement & Entrapment, Smart Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
Paper Art, Art Alley Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2014 Painting Now, One Church St Gallery, Great Missenden
Essential Elements, St Brides Gallery, Liverpool Biennial Independents
5th Paul Ricard International painting Symposium,Ile de Bendor, France
'Lost', an artistic archaeology of the recent past, Salisbury Art Centre
2013 Nuances Parisiennes, Musee de Beaux-Arts de St Petersbourg, Russia
Visions of Yorkshire, The art station, Huddersfield train station
Cities; All Dimensions, Tokarska Gallery, London
2012 Begehungen 9, In der Zwischenzeit, Chemnitz, Germany
The Schools, ex RA students from 1950-90, Beverley Art Gallery
2011 ‘Artists at Home & Abroad’, Broadway Gallery, New York
2010 ’Refracted Landscape’, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
‘Paint’, Beldam Gallery, Brunel University, Uxbridge
Urban Voids and Absences, turn-berlin gallery, Berlin
2009 Artists in Residence 09, Chapman Gallery, Salford University
Fete Picasso-Small Art Objects, Vallauris, France
2006 ‘Urbia’ Sheffield University
‘Roderic Barret and his students’, Chappel Galleries, Chappel
2005 ‘Fold it’ Stroud House Gallery, Stroud
2003 Paintings in Hospitals, Sheridan Russel Gallery, London
2002 Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax
2001 ‘Urban’, York City Art Gallery
1999 Space 99, Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield
1995 4 artists from London, casa de la cultura, Aguilas, Spain
1991 Gray Art Gallery, Hartlepool, ‘regeneration of the waterfront’
Prizes, awards. Open submissions
2024 Members Show, Studio 1.1, London
Town House Open, London
Southwark Park Open
The Big Art Show, Paisley
Open Exhibition at the Minories, Colchester
Higher Bandwidth, Shat Gallery, Skelmanthorpe Library
2023 Spring Exhibition D31 Art Gallery, Doncaster
Members Show, Studio 1.1, London
Redcar Summer Open, Redcar Contemporary Gallery, Redcar
The Big Art Show, The Art Department, Paisley
Festival of Street Art, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
Stockport Makes, Stockport Open 2023
2022 The Harley Open, Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Worksop
Members Show, Studio 1.1, London
Towns and Cities, Open Gallery, Halifax
Home, The Open Gallery, Halifax
Landscape, Open Gallery, Halifax
Open Mind, Open Gallery, Halifax
Summer Exhibition, Open Gallery, Halifax
Summer Exhibiton, D31 Gallery, Doncaster
Anything but Paint, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
PAINT! Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
Moray, Mapping and Memory, members exhibition, The Moray Arts Centre, Findhorn, Scotland
The 38th Derbyshire Open, Buxton Art Gallery and Museum
A Green Gathering, The Green Man Gallery, Buxton
We are Here, Artspace, Cambridge
The Raven Open, Raven Gallery, Mexborough
Give me Love, Lido Stores, Margate
The Lido Open, Margate
Autumn Exhibition, D31 Gallery, Doncaster
Rhythm; Art in Conversation with Music, The Storey, Lancaster
2021 Lancaster Music Festival Art Exhibition
The Lido Open, The Lido Stores, Margate
Abstract, Fronteer Gallery Sheffield
Refresh, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
This Years Model, part III, Studio1.1, London
In the Open, Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole, North Yorkshire
Summer Open Exhibition, D31 Gallery, Doncaster
2020 Royal Cambrian Academy open exhibition, Conwy, Wales
2019 Wales Contemporary, Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven, & Mall Galleries, London
Hull Open, Ferens Gallery, Hull
Paper Art Festival, The Peoples Palace, Sofia
2018 NN Open, Northampton
Hope & Home, Workers Gallery, Porth, Wales
Hull Open, Ferens Gallery Hull
Waterside Open, Waterside Arts Centre, Sale Manchester
2017 Amateras Mini Paper Art Exhibition, Gallery Finesse, Sofia, Bulgaria
Lichfield Art Prize, finalist, Lichfield Cathedral
Legend, Moma Machynlleth, Wales
[Kun:st}Preis International, Galerie Kerstan, Stuttgart
Small Faces, Solent University Gallery, Southampton
2016 Peterborough Open, highly commended award, judged by Sarah Brown,
Dale Devereux Barker, Yasmin Canvin
International Postcard Exhibition, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2015 Neo Art Prize, Gallery 27. Bolton Market Place, Bolton, selected by
Ian Davenport, Amira Gad, Margot Heller, and Helen Phelby.
Shoosmiths Art Prize, Milton Keynes Arts for Health selected by
Baroness Wall, Sophie Hall, Julia Alvarez, Gary Assim.
Oriel Wrexham selected by John McClenaghen
2014 9th International Biennial of Drawing, Pilsen, Czech Republic
2013 Finalist, Modessqe 1st painting contest, Skwer, Warsaw
The Big Draw at Tokarska Gallery, London
'Drawing' Salisbury Art Centre, Salisbury
Ludlow Open, Ludlow selectors; Christopher le Brun,
Ann de Charmant, David Keaton-Roberts, Nathaniel Pitt
2012 Neo Art Prize, Bolton selectors; Kwong Lee & Aileen McEvoy
2011 Arqadia award for a work in monochrome, Society of Graphic Fine Art
2010 ArtWorks open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London selected by
Timothy Hyman & Graham Crowley
2009 Drawn In, Sidcot Arts Centre, Winscombe, Somerset
2005 Jerwood Drawing Prize selectors; Stephen Farthing, Martin Kemp,
Dr Sarah Simblet
1995 John Moores 19, prizewinner selectors; Frances Spalding, Timothy Hyman,
Basil Beatie, Alex Kidson
1992 Lucy Morrrison Memorial Award, Royal Overseas League
1990/2 Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions
1989 Aeneas Travelling award (Royal Academy)
Bibliography
2021 City Lines review written by Sean Williams published on a-n Reviews
2017 Nottingham Post, April 15th
2016 Digging into the Quicksands of Time, Anna McNay, http://art-corpus.blogspot.com/
2015 Overlooked, Introduction by Paul Allender, Sheffield University
Interviewed for 'Provence TV', SIAC Marseille, France
2014 Review: Essential Elements, St. Brides Gallery, Liverpool text by Sinead
Nunes posted online by Lauren Velvick September 14, 2014
The State of Art, Landscape & Portrait #1, Bare Hill Publishing
The State of Art, Representational & Abstract #2
2013 Modessqe Art Magazine September, Cracow
2012 Tribe Magazine, online international creative arts magazine Issue 1
New York Arts Magazine Spring 2012
Begehungen no.9, Chemnitz
2007 David Briers, text for 'Short Frieze'
Collections
Societe Paul Ricard, Bandol, France
Beldam Gallery, Uxbridge University
Royal Overseas League, London
Private Collections:
London, Marseille, Bordeaux, Mulhouse, Colmar, Vallauris, San Sebastien, Chemnitz, U.S.A., Manchester, Colchester, Sheffield, Southport, Liverpool, Plymouth, Ludlow, Newhaven, Eastbourne
sales in 2024
2 pieces sold by the Lido Stores Margate
1 watercolour sold by The Green Man Gallery, Buxton
1 oil painting sold in the Street Art Exhibition, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
1 oil painting sold from the Big Art Show, Paisley, Scotland
2 oil paintings sold from my solo exhibition at APS gallery, Leeds
2 watercolours and 2 oil paintings sold from my solo exhibition at the Old Chapel Gallery, Sheffield