About Jane Upstone

BA Hons. Fine Art, Reading University, 2003.

Residence: Derbyshire, England.

Jane Upstone’s work is her way of exploring the world around her, examining the sensory ramifications of her daily encounters with it. Her work is focused on conjuring the emotion and atmosphere of places both real and imagined, each painting inviting a viewer to take time to linger visually and enjoy the experience of their own imagined journey. Although landscape plays an important role in the inspiration behind the work, they are an abstracted interpretation.

Her work oscillates between thickly layered, sensually manipulated surfaces and calm expanses of soft colour washes where drips and runs are allowed to take their own course, inviting you to linger in front of it and suspend thought for feeling. 

She cites the work of American abstract expressionists such as Sam Francis and Joan Mitchell among her influences as well as the work of Peter Doig and JMW Turner. In recent years the work of Cornish artist David Mankin has been a great inspiration to her.