ABOUT | janecallan

Jane has been an artist for over 30 years, having been taught by renowned artist Christopher Fiddes at Northampton High School for Girls, then gaining a Diploma in Foundation Studies at Northampton School for Art, a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Loughborough College of Art and Design, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking from Wimbledon School of Art.

Her artwork often reflects and celebrates her love of nature, animals and plants, exploring human and animal figures and the landscape. Her studio wood and linocut prints, use the formal limitations of the block to explore, express and celebrate, a personal relationship with the natural world. Drawing and sketchbooks have always been the cornerstone of her practise.

She has been commissioned to create and paint designs on many sculptures, for around 20 charitable public art trails in the UK and abroad, which have helped raise thousands of pounds for wildlife conservation and local charities or community projects. She was also commissioned by Bath & North East Somerset Council to create designs that were laser cut onto CorTen steel tree planters and grilles as part of the London Rd Gateway Regeneration Project Bath.

Jane has also worked as an art project organiser, artist in residence and part of the workshop team on King Bladud's Pigs in Bath 2008, and from 2009 - 2019 as a member of the organising team for Community Interest Company Art at the Edge, who organised many projects including 'Sculpture and Sport a Celebration for 2012'. She has acted as a consultant on a number of other public art projects. Her voluntary work in the Arts sector includes working with pupils and staff at Newbridge Primary School, Bath to create the Millennium and Golden Tapestries and a number of wall murals. In 2007 she won the chairman's special prize in the ANA IV Aozora Environmental Picture Book Competition.

Jane is a full member of the Northampton Town and County Art Society.

Since moving to Cambridgeshire, Jane continues to sketch animals, plants and nature, she has been experimenting with a range of printmaking techniques combined with other mediums and papermaking and she writes poetry.

Recently exhibited work.

Cambridge Drawing Society Spring Exhibition

Sketch for Survival

Artists for Painted Dogs Autumn Exhibition

Northampton Town and County Art Society Annual Exhibition

Bath Open Studios Groups, Art at the Heart, RUH.

First View Gallery, Stourhead, Dorset

Winds of Change Art Gallery, Winchcombe.

Bath Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath

Art the Heart Central Gallery RUH Bath

44AD Artspace, Bath

Newbridge Arts Trail, Bath

Galleries - Freshford, Bath

'Inspired' - Guildhall Arts Centre Bristol

Rooksmoor and Rostra Gallery Bath

Art for Life - Bath

The Bath Prize - Octagon, Bath

Wherever the need - charitable project and auction
'Sculpture and Sport a Celebration for 2012' @oxogallery, London

'The Art of Storytelling' Pound Arts, Corsham

Public Commissions.

King Bladud's Pigs in Bath 2008 - 'Save the Hamazon','Country Pignic', 'Pig in a Poke'

Pride in Northampton 2010 - 'King Edward'

Lions of Bath 2010 - 'Roartork'

Elephant Parade London 2010 - 'Roselelphant'

Wow Gorillas Bristol 2011 - 'Blackbeard Silverback'

Elephant Parade Copenhagen 2011- 'Mosha the world at your feet'

Elephant Parade Singapore 2011-2012 - 'Love Song'

Elephant Parade and Elephant Communications 2012 - 'Midnight Rose'

Stroll Discovery Trails London 2012 - 'Westminster Abbey Wenlock', 'Plane Trees Wenlock'

Great Gorillas Paignton 2013 - 'Five minutes to Midnight'

Intu Elephant Parade Tour UK 2013 - 'The Butterfly Effect'

Cirencester Hare Festival 2014 - 'Harebelle' 'Harelequin', Tiger hare'

Books About Town London 2014 - 'Origin of the Species'.

Year of the Bus London 2014 - 'Brollybus'

London Rd Gateway Regeneration Project, Bath 2014-2015 Design work for planters and tree grilles.

Go Herdwick 2015-16 - 'Stargrazer', 'A sheep in the sun' 'Charlie lamb'.

Wild in Art 2016 commission for Bookbench 'A House that Jane Built'

Cotswold Hare Trail 2017 - 'Hare of the Dog' & 'The Tiger that came to town'

Lincoln Knights Trail 2017 - 'Lincoln Greene'

Minerva's Owls of Bath 2018 - 'The Owl and the Pussycat'

This is Gratitude UK tour 2021 - 'Beacon of Hope'