ABOUT

Jane Peacock lives and works in the Chiltern Hills, surrounded by beechwoods, flint and chalk.  Inspired by the land around her she creates dreamscapes; imagined, abstracted vistas full of dreams, caves, bones, memories and the suggestion of a bodily presence within the land. The geological evolution of the planet is explored, alongside a search for our ancestors within the changing landscape. These images often contain oblique references to the supernatural and vintage sci-fi.  Jane creates her richly coloured paintings, ink drawings, collages and prints in an unplanned, instinctive way, using automatic techniques and adding and removing layers throughout the process. In each image, Jane is searching for a sense of magic; attempting to reconnect with the ecosystems of which we are intrinsically part, to discover a shared imagination of subconscious imagery held across vast sweeps of time.

Jane was on the Turps Correspondence Course (2022–2023) and studied BA (Hons) Fine Art at Kingston University (1995-1998).  She is currently Artist in Residence at Wycombe Museum and is a founding member of the Fractured Land Collective.

CV

Education

2024 New Platform Art Professional Development programme

2022-2023: Turps Banana Correspondence Course

1998: Kingston University: BA Hons Painting

1994: Buckinghamshire College of Art and Design - Foundation in Art and Design

Exhibitions

2024 Layers, Downstairs at the Department Store, inaugural group show of Unprimed Collective

2024 England is a Forest, Sluice (Vernacular) at the Minories and online

2024 This Fractured Land, Discover Bucks Museum - **Winner - Best Exhibition, Bucks Sparks Awards 2024**

2024 Inspiration from the Otherworldly, College of Psychic Studies, online

2023/24 Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio

2023 Winter Lights, Fronteer Gallery

2023 We Are The Witches, House of Smalls

2023 Do Not Swallow, Safehouse 1 & 2

2023 ASP: A Generous Space 3, Huddersfield Art Gallery

2023 Bucks Open, Discover Bucks

2023 Mud, For You, Fitzrovia Gallery

2022 British Painting 3, Bermondsey Project Space

2022 Chilterns Landscapes, Wycombe Museum

2020 Made in Venus, the Tub, Hackney

2020 Made in High Wycombe: Furniture, Wycombe Museum

2018 DAFT, Wycombe Arts Centre

2001 Interiors; solo show at the Wycombe Swan Theatre

1998 Recent graduates, Old Fire Station, Kingston

1997 Group show, Facultade de Bellas Artes, Pontevedra