visit Jane’s website at janefrancis.net
about Jane Francis
Jane Francis is a visual artist, based at her studio in Burntisland, Fife, which has an adjacent gallery space. She is primarily a painter, also working across photography, assemblage, zines and socially engaged practice. She also enjoys curating other artists’ work and collaborations.
She is largely self-taught, beginning an art degree in 1989 at Edinburgh College of Art, but not completing the course due to her unrecognised neurodivergence. She has an MA in English Literature from Edinburgh University and remains fascinated by poetry, fiction and literary theory, which are sometimes to be found incorporated into her art practice.
Current
“I’m currently engaged in a reflexive and research-led project, supported by Create: Inclusion at Creative Scotland. it is based on a practice which emphasises play, movement and sensory joy, integrating the making of pigments and other materials with foraged plants from marginal urban land, and underpinned by readings of autistic theoretical and creative texts. This project/practice is due to culminate in an exhibition in September 2023.”
Site specific art projects
Since 2015 Jane has designed and led several participatory art projects, with children, adults and mixed age groups. She enjoys facilitating the creative endeavours of a diverse range of people, supporting them in their responses to their built and natural environments, the experiences of place, familiarity and strangeness, the passage of time, and agency and control over life’s events.
Each project has been different, but each project has developed her methodologies further, building on ways of communicating, designing, developing and helping people bring their thoughts and ideas to fruition. For information about the projects look here