10:22am Wednesday 2nd September 2009
By Jim Greenhalf
One of Jane Fielder’s new ‘Janescapes’ shows Bingley’s new health clinic under construction.
In the background, on the left, is the Bradford & Bingley HQ that has just been put up for sale at £4m.
So pictorially the picture, one of more than 20 new ones to go on show at Jane’s Bingley gallery, brings together the old and new.
Although Jane has a studio in her Park Road home, she prefers to paint in the kitchen between 8pm and midnight.
“I have tried other places, but it doesn’t work. I don’t know why it doesn’t work, but nothing happens. Perhaps I don’t feel free,” she said. In the past three years, Jane has had two solo exhibitions at the Duncan Campbell Fine Arts Gallery in London.
Jane has been asked to provide a show of winter landscapes – her pictures of Bingley in autumn and winter are among her most distinctive – for the same gallery in the next two years.
It’s a remarkable story when you think that Jane only started showing her pictures at the age of 48, about 12 years ago, when she joined the Aire Valley Arts Group.
Unassuming and a great supporter of other people’s work, Jane will be putting on a new exhibition of paintings by Norman Bevan at her small Park Road gallery from October 8 to November 1 – four days after her own show finishes.
Jane is able to earn a living from the sale of prints and cards as well as original paintings.
She said: “That’s pretty brilliant. That is all I want. I don’t want to be a millionaire. The paintings and cards have been to all sorts of places all over the world.”
As reported in last week’s T&A, one of the places Jane will be taking her work later this month is London’s Trafalgar Square.
Jane will be on the Fourth Plinth as part of sculptor Antony Gormley’s One & Other project for an hour on Sunday, September 27, doing rapid sketches of people and buildings and raising money for Bradford’s pioneering Burns Unit.
Jane will be standing in a place historically reserved for monarchs and generals.
One thing she mighty like to reflect on, is that the granite plinths round Nelson’s Column are occupied by bronze lions similar to the ones outside Victoria Hall in Saltaire.
The story goes that the Saltaire lions were Sir Edwin Landseer’s original London lions, but were found to be too small for Trafalgar Square. That would explain why Nelson had to wait nearly 20 years until 1868 for his leoline guardians.
New Janescapes is on at the Bingley gallery, 29A Park Road, Bingley, from September 5 to October 4. The Gallery is open Thursday to Friday, from noon to 6pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 5pm.
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