Jane Landes is a visual artist living and working in London. She makes bold, colourful mainly abstract art. She has always done so with some of her earliest memories being of using creativity in varying forms to express herself. As an adult this became an important tool and mode of communication for professional work both as a visual artist and as an art therapist.
She says of her art:
The work is expressive, at times full of emotion and at other times harmonious and contemplative. It is an outer expression of inner feeling onto which viewers are invited to project their own meaning.
For now she works with collage on canvas and mixed media works on paper. She previously had long stints of painting in oils, printmaking as well as incorporation of textile processes. She often returns to older work, refashioning it into something new.
Although Jane has exhibited in sporadic sole and group shows over the years, art making has been an intensely private occupation and exhibiting an uncomfortable experience. Art therapy training in 2004 ameliorated this to some extent as she encountered a space in which process driven art making was an acceptable goal. She became interested in the idea of art production as an essential existential act with regular art practice being an important act of self-care. Currently she finds reproducing selected works as gyclee prints and cards as a satisfactory way to share a finished product while her Instagram account provides an interesting platform to share process with a wider audience.
University of Hertfordshire - MA Art Therapy
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design - BA Fine Art
St Martin’s School of Art, London - Foundation in Art