Jane Campling

Jane Campling lives and works in East Sussex. She studied Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University, achieving a first-class honours degree and was awarded the Stuart Sutcliffe Fellowship.

“The paintings are inspired by forms in nature. They are characterised by distinct colour palettes and fluent, bold and expressive lines. Images are developed through a process of observation in the landscape, capturing the colours, rhythms and form. The sketches then become the basis of developed, abstracted paintings in the studio using acrylic or oil paint. Colours are accentuated and shapes and forms emphasised, as a formal process exploring the balance and tension between these elements begin. Dark blues, greens and grey hues contrast with tints of red, orange and yellow; darkness contrasts with light, shade with luminosity. Colours and marks reveal themselves and new forms emerge, layer over layer, linking back to a time and a place.”

Jane has a studio at the Phoenix Art Space in the centre of Brighton and exhibits widely.