Jane Askew BA (Hons)

I am a fine artist based on the South Coast at Fareham in Hampshire.  I did my Foundation year at Fareham College and have recently graduated from the University of Chichester with a BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class).  I currently specialise in oil and watercolour painting.

My current work is inspired by the view from my suburban home which overlooks a vestigial fragment of countryside gradually being subsumed by suburban sprawl.   The view fascinates me, with its dissonant combination of banal 1970s suburban housing, majestic trees and distant landscape, alluding to a lost Arcadia. 

The paintings I make are derived from photographs taken through my bedroom window and seek to enhance the sense of melancholy, distance and poignancy of the diminishing landscape as viewed from the domestic interior.   The painting process of layering transparent oil glazes is also analogous with the veiling of the landscape.

E-mail: jane@smallhouse.co.uk