Jane Boot

Jane works from her home and studio in Bristol where she predominantly works in acrylic and collage.  Having originally worked as a theatre and television production manager for 15 years in London, and after a break to bring up 3 children, she completed a BTEC HNC in Creative Embroidery  at the London College of Fashion, which led her on to collage and painting; first watercolours and then acrylic.   She says of her work:

“When I moved to Bristol I concentrated on watercolour with some mixed media.  I an now working in acrylics and collage.  My paintings are purely imaginative.  Ideas are stored in my head and experimental techniques are logged into my ideas book.  I love to create paintings based on the landscape but sometimes inspiration just evolves from nowhere.   To break the fear of the blank canvas, I quickly cover the surface with random colours, inks, pastels or anything that comes to hand!  I am merely laying an uneven surface which I can then work into.  At this stage I may add a few pieces of hand dyed paper and then paint the next layer which will determine the colours of the end result.  I will continue to paint, scrape, dilute, draw until I see the beginning of the final piece.  This is an exciting process as there are so many twists and turns.  As I near the end of the journey, I paint very little and probably do more drawing with either ink, watercolour, pencil or marker.”

EXHIBITIED:
Royal West of England Academy, Open Exhibition, 2023

Jane has work in private collections in the UK, Europe, South Africa, USA and Australia.  
Until recently she was chair of the Friends of RWA, Bristol.