Tapestry weaving is a slow process: time is taken to build the picture, starting at the bottom and working up to the top. The pieces are based on actual scenes and begin with several sketches on-site.
Jane uses a great variety of different yarns, mainly wool but also cotton, linen and raffia, blending thick and thin, coarse and fine together to gather the effect.
During her year as Surrey Artist of the Year, Jane has also explored new processes in her practice using different methods and incorporating new techniques to achieve challenging effects in the landscape tapestry.
Jane says: "I am working on tapestries inspired by the Esso fuel pipeline which has cut swathes through the local countryside. This pipeline has provoked much negative reaction but from a purely artistic point of view it has provided opportunities to capture a moment in time before the pipeline returns to the field landscape as it was".
Jane studied at the West Surrey College of Art & Design (now the University for the Creative Arts) specialising in tapestry weaving. She was taught by the late eminent tapestry weaver Archie Brennan.