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Jane Walker
Born 1960
Lives and works in Sheffi eld, UK
www.axisweb.org/p/janewalker

Jane Walker’s work brings together different perspectives
on the urban environment, creating many small images
which are glued and layered together. Many of the
materials including paper that she uses are fairly transparent,
particularly the Japanese paper. Sometimes Walker uses
glues and media to alter the transparency of paper. Most
of my fi nished work is in portrait format, but the images are
long thin landscapes. This is an ongoing theme, they began
as chemical experiments recording the colour changes and
interactions of pigments on Japanese paper.
The Seine series is made up of 11 small watercolours of the
same landscape. The view is of Paris and the Seine. The
painted acrylic strip on the right is there to bind the horizontal
images together.

JANE WALKER studied at Sheffi eld Hallam University (1984-87) and
the Royal Academy Schools (1987-90) and received; an Aeneas
travelling award (1990), and a Lucy Morrison Memorial award from
the Royal Overseas League (1993) and was a prize winner in the John
Moores 19, Liverpool (1995). Solo shows include, Cross channel ferry,
Newhaven-Dieppe, residency drawings, Hawth Theatre, Crawley,
and paintings from the residency, Star Gallery, Lewes, Sussex (1993), In
Turners Footsteps, Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery, Nuneaton, UK
(2011). Selected group exhibitions include Urban, York City Art Gallery
(2001), Jerwood Drawing Prize (2005), Sunday Times Watercolour
competition (2005), Paint, Beldam Gallery, Brunel University (2010),
5x(5x5), Target Gallery, Torpedo Center, Alexandria, VA (2011),
Artists at Home & Abroad, Broadway Gallery, New York (2011), In Der
Zwischenzeit, Begehungen no9, Chemnitz (2012), Art O'clock, CNIT,
Paris (2012), Cities;all dimensions, Tokarska Gallery, London (2013),
Modessqe 1st painting competition, Warsaw (2013), Ludlow Open
(2013), Ruth Borchard self-portrait competition, Kings Place, London
(2013), Nuances Parisiennes, Musée de Beaux Arts de St. Petersbourg,
Russia, Salon International de portrait, Chateau de Beauregard, Blois,
France (2013+14), Salon Blanc, Musée de Tokyo, Tokyo (2013) and Salon
International de l'Art Contemporain, Marseille (2011-14).
Right: Seine, 2013, Watercolour, acrylic and found
materials on paper collaged on canvas panel.
h: 76cm w: 56cm d: 2cm, Artist’s Collection.
Above: Seine 1, 2013, Ink, watercolour, acrylic and
paper on wood panel.
h: 60cm w: 50cm d: 2cm, Artist’s Collection.

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