Jane Thompson was born and raised in the country on a sheep and cattle property in the Southern Tablelands of NSW, Australia. An avid explorer, Jane has lived and worked in many places throughout Australia, including Broken Hill, the Kimberley, Canberra, Sydney and currently now resides in Brisbane/Meanjin.

Working predominantly in acrylics, wax pastels, oil sticks and graphite, Jane enjoys creating with fast drying materials as they enable her to capture the energy and freedom in the spontaneous moment. For Jane there are no rules, no boundaries, no expectations and no plan of what it ‘should be’; the process is both open and guided by the energy of the creation and the energy from Jane herself. 

Closely connected to nature, Jane has recently focused her attention to the natural elements of our world, in particular water, which has manifested a more fluid and layered approach to her process. She also applies a daily writing practice to engage words, ideas and stories; inviting a more spiritual aliveness to the artworks.

“Expressive, gestural and layered, I paint under the influential directives of our internal and external complexities. An estimation of what it is to be human, my artwork focuses broadly on the hopes we have in the familiar, the ones we have for the unknown and the belief that nature will always inform and guide the next step”

Jane has also enjoyed success in various emerging art prizes and several solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia. She is also looking forward to an upcoming International Exhibition at the Affordable Art Fair in Brussels where she will be represented by her Italian Art Gallery, Young Art Hunters.