Jane Spence
About the Artist
Jane Spence is a British painter based in Stratford-Upon-Avon. She has a BA Honours in Theatre Design from Birmingham City University and an MA in Painting at Coventry University. Her artworks are held in private collections both at home and abroad. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in galleries including the Biennial Coventry Open Competition at Herbert Art Gallery Coventry, the West Midlands Open at The New Art Gallery Walsall, the Worcester Open at The Arthouse Worcester and The Hanson Gallery London. Collaborative artist projects have led to exhibitions at MAC Birmingham, Canwood Gallery Herefordshire, General Office Gallery Stourbridge, Newhampton Arts Centre Wolverhampton and Winterbourne House Birmingham. She has had two works long-listed for the Jackson’s Art Prize for two consecutive years.
Through her work, Spence navigates the elusive liminal space between conscious and unconscious, absence and presence. Her work is rooted in a vast library of found images and personal photographs, weaving together past and present. By manipulating perspective and scale, often within invented structures or grids, she creates an atmosphere of uncertainty. Her artistic journey, influenced by her own experiences, explores themes of storytelling, otherness, and wonder. Recently, she has focused on the elusive nature of reality and memory, questioning their reliability in our subjective interpretations.
Jane Spence is a British painter based in Stratford-Upon-Avon. She has a BA Honours in Theatre Design from Birmingham City University and an MA in Painting at Coventry University. Her artworks are held in private collections both at home and abroad. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in galleries including the Biennial Coventry Open Competition at Herbert Art Gallery Coventry, the West Midlands Open at The New Art Gallery Walsall, the Worcester Open at The Arthouse Worcester and The Hanson Gallery London. Collaborative artist projects have led to exhibitions at MAC Birmingham, Canwood Gallery Herefordshire, General Office Gallery Stourbridge, Newhampton Arts Centre Wolverhampton and Winterbourne House Birmingham. She has had two works long-listed for the Jackson’s Art Prize for two consecutive years.
Through her work, Spence navigates the elusive liminal space between conscious and unconscious, absence and presence. Her work is rooted in a vast library of found images and personal photographs, weaving together past and present. By manipulating perspective and scale, often within invented structures or grids, she creates an atmosphere of uncertainty. Her artistic journey, influenced by her own experiences, explores themes of storytelling, otherness, and wonder. Recently, she has focused on the elusive nature of reality and memory, questioning their reliability in our subjective interpretations.
The Artworks (Ashurst Art Collection 2025)
Thoughts
Oil on Canvas (2 parts)
150 x 200cm
Oil on Canvas (2 parts)
150 x 200cm
“…the daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.” Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space.
Leap
Oil on Canvas (2 Parts)
150 x 200cm
Oil on Canvas (2 Parts)
150 x 200cm
