Individuals: Visual Artists: Jane Eccles

Artist's Statement

The paintings continue. My journals continue. Themes that started thirty five years ago run parallel to each other. Athletes, portraits , dress images, water images, chance, synchronicities and images of daily life.

I am working towards a show and pace the day with the joy of painting and hope that it delivers a positive delivery to the audience. I believe that I am documenting women who beat the odds. I am going after emblems that crack that glass ceiling.

Behind each and every image is the land. The colour of the Northumberland Hills in the late fall and early winter.

Bio

Jane Eccles was born in Smiths Falls, Ontario but spent her summers in Hants County, Nova Scotia. She has visual arts degrees from the University of Guelph and the University of Toronto. She was head of visual art at Bowmanville High School for 32 years and serviced one thousand students a year in visual art. She received the Marshall McLuhan Award for Distinguished teaching in 1990. She was a founding member of the artist run gallery Artspace in Peterborough. She has exhibited widely and is building a reputation as a performer.

She lives in Bowmanville with artist Ron Eccles, they have two sons Bradley and Ryan both computer specialists.