Jane Canfield was born in New Zealand (Christchurch) in 1967 and grew up in an artistic family, with her father Tony Canfield being a collected artist, inventor, motor mechanic and designer. Every weekend they would go camping, and her dad would be sketching and painting. This love of working in nature has followed her to this day.
Jane was accepted at an early age to Graphic Design College (Randwick TAFE, Sydney 1984) and spent 20 years working in the industry, but always drew and painted, encouraged by family. She first came to notice for her strong lino cut prints, but it was not until her Dad passed away in 2004 that she became a full time artist.
She is also a WIRES volunteer (particularly interested in Flying Foxes and Bats) and is one of the founding volunteer directors on the Katoomba & Upper Blue Mountains Bendigo Community Bank Branch which returns thousands of dollars every year to not-for-profit and community groups in the region.
“I hope my work reveals my love of life and tranquillity that I often feel either at home in the studio, or if I am travelling, finding inspiration in the landscape in my 1974 VW Kombi ‘Dot’ with my little dogs.
I constantly strive for reduction and simplification in my work, not reproducing exactly what I see, but my version of it, but I do need to have ‘seen’ it to be inspired. These days I am layering my work more and rubbing back, using a reduced colour palette and tonalism”
Selected Recent Exhibitions
2024 'The Collector's Showcase’, Group Show, Manyung Gallery Malvern
2023 ‘Solstice’, Day Gallery, Blackheath NSW
2023 ‘Landscape Inspirations, Manyung Gallery Mount Eliza
2023 Abstract Landscape Soiree, Manyung Gallery Flinders
2022 ‘Spring Light’, Manyung Gallery Mount Eliza
2020 ‘Tonalism’, Day Gallery, Blackheath NSW
2019 ‘Girt by Sea’, Rochfort Gallery, Sydney
2018 ‘Still Life, Interiors and Landscape’, Rex-Livingston Art + Objects, Katoomba
2018 ‘Here/Now’ Orange Regional Gallery
2017 'All Over the Place,' Rex-Livingston Art + Objects
2017 ‘Crack Fox & Friends,’ Rex-Livingston Art + Objects
2016 ‘Victa’s Paddock’, Rex-Livingston Art + Objects
2015 Salon de Refuses, NSW Parliament Plein Air Art Prize.
2013 Feature artist, Gallery Blackheath
2013 Solo exhibition, Leura Studio
2012 Art For Art’s Sake, Art Fair
Commendations & Awards:
2024 finalist, Regional Landscape Prize, Orange NSW
2024 finalist, 9x5 Landscape Prize. Waverley/Woollahra
2023 Finalist, 40/40 Sketch Co Gallery, Sydney
2023 Finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery
2023 Finalist, Mt Eyre Art Prize
2022 Finalist 9x5 art award
2022 Finalist Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery
2021 Finalist Paddington Art Prize, Sydney.
2020 Finalist Waverley Woollahra Landscape Prize
2018 Finalist Korea-Australia Arts Foundation Art Prize
2018 Finalist, NSW Parliament Plein Air Art Prize
2018 Finalist, Calleen Art Award
2017 Finalist NSW Parliament Plein Air Art Prize
2017 Finalist Calleen Art Award
2016 Winner Blackheath Art Society Members E
2014 Acquired into the Kedumba Drawing Award
2014 Finalist, Paddington Art Prize.
2014 Finalist, Norvill Art Prize
2014 Finalist, Calleen Art Award
2010 Winner Springwood Art Exhibition
2008 Winner BMAN Crockett Prize – Contemporary
2008 Highly commended, Winmalee Art Fest.
2007 Highly commended, Winmalee Art Fest.