Jane Francis, Vessels Pink and Green, 2023
Jane Francis is an abstract and conceptual artist working across painting, drawing, ink, photography, assemblage and artist’s books. As well as developing a studio practice Francis has worked as lead artist on several participatory art projects with adults and children.
Francis explores the processes and potentialities of somatic and sensorial encounters – between each other and the more-than-human-world – in particular the possibilities of the uncanny, sensitive, gentle, marginal or fragile. She works in ways which skirt the boundaries between freedom and control of materials, and recent works explore the monster and the ancestor. She had two solo exhibitions in Fife in 2019 and 2023, and took part in two group exhibitions in 2024, Neuk Perspectives at Patriothall Gallery and Out of Sight Out of Mind at Summerhall in Edinburgh. She has previously received support from the Creative Scotland Create: Inclusion Award and Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards for developing her practice.
Jane Francis is visually impaired, with Purtscher’s Retinopathy, which presents many challenges, but which she says also informs her unique perspective.
