jane
shanks

Jane Shanks is a figurative painter working predominantly with oil paints', living and working in Glasgow.

She studied Drawing and Painting at the Glasgow School of Art in 1989 - 1993, continuing her studies there on the Postgraduate course 1993 - 1994.

On graduating GSA, she was given the Dan Ferguson prize for drawing, a Hart Bursary and the Gillies student award for travel.

Exhibitions include group shows with The Society for Women Artists, Paisley Arts Institute, Society of Scottish Artists, Kelly Gallery and Roger Bilcliff.

An interest in Film Noir in parallel with Lockdown has informed her most recent completed work. Drawing inspiration from the domestic and the everyday, the relationships between the figures, forms and subjects are charged with apprehension, their close contact with others is tense and obscure.

The paintings are dark and monochromatic. the subjects ambiguous in their environment with compositions mirroring that of a screen shot from a psychological thriller.