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Largely self-taught, Jane’s style has developed from what brings her pleasure both to produce and to look at. She hopes that her pieces will bring enjoyment, relaxation and peace to the viewer while also perhaps heightening awareness of the beauty and colour that is to be found all around us.

Working mainly in watercolour but also in pastel and printmaking, Jane is fascinated by the half hidden colours in everyday scenes. Living in the ancient city of York in the north of England,  she finds the city’s beautiful historic architecture an endless supply of subject matter, picking out the pinks, blues, purples and ochres in brickwork and stones.  When painting wildlife she will find the rainbow of hues in apparently white fur or a brown pelt.

Jane’s first passion is portrait painting and she brings her love of fresh colour to this discipline too.  She prefers to meet her subjects in the flesh and make some studies from life but when commissioned to work from photographs, for whatever reason, she makes sure that she finds out all she can about the subject from those who know and love them. In this way she can still instil some of their personality in the painting and bring out what makes them special. 

For details of one and two-day watercolour workshops with Jane please click here.

Jane often takes part in exhibitions around North Yorkshire and when possible enjoys demonstrating and painting on the spot.  Her quick watercolour sketch portraits are particularly popular with onlookers. For details of these events see the exhibitions page.

You can read some of the kind comments Jane has received about her work by clicking below.

 

Jane Duke at work

   
Watercolour self portrait   Self portrait 2005
Watercolour and sepia chalk

This quick sketch was made in half an hour and is an example of the sort of rapid on-the-spot portraits Jane paints at fairs and exhibitions

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Jane at work in a life class

This photograph was taken in 2004
at Maison des Arts
in the South of France

     
     

 

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