JANE HIGGINBOTTOM

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Jane Higginbottom is a sculptor and painter who has been making work on the theme of Nature’s Systems, which ties in with her other passion, her allotment. Through looking at the seasonal changes in light and it’s affect on plants and trees she has produced her latest series of sculpture and paintings.

Paintings such as ‘Grandmother’s Blanket - Purple Loobstrife’ are looking at plant forms from the Tate community garden and combining their rythms with a colour sequence from a blanket made by her grandmother. Another series of ‘Tree Spaces’ looks at the shapes and skies between the branches of the trees in the road where she lives, at various times of year.

Processes and Techniques

When stone carving Jane works mainly with hand tools to cut the stone. The work is usually on a small scale and made in the studio. She works with a variety of stones from marble to granite.

Curiculum Vitea

Jane studied fine art painting at Camberwell Scool of Art form 1984-7. She then moved into sculpture and studied at City and Guilds college Kennington. She works locally in her studio off the Old Kent Road and her recent exhibitions have included the following:

2007
Jenny Granger Gallery, Whitstable
Jeannie Avent Gallery, Northcross Road, Dulwich
Morley Gallery, Air exhibition
Pippa Graber, Two person show as part of Dulwich festival

2006
Jeannie Avent Gallery, Northcross Road
2006 The Discerning Eye – Mall Galleries, London. Sculpture chosen by Sir Jonathan Miller and sold to a member of the ING group.

She was also a winner of the Windsor and Newton Young Artists Award and was awarded a residency at Lowick House Cumbria as well as being artist in residence, Skyros for 2 years and was on a shortlist of 3 for the Sir Robert Menzies painting scholarship to Perth Australia.

Her work has been bought by many local collectors and can also be seen on the Scottish Sculpture workshop sculpture trail and at Broomhill Art Hotel, Devon.