We can find small moments in our days where the real rhythm of being can be heard, often in stillness when we can allow deep connection and co-ordination of aspects of ourselves as well as those around us and our environment. Jane has always aimed to keep the truth of this incorporated in her day-to-day, through creative pursuits and habits - though it does seem to be an increasingly stronger tide to swim against …

Jane has been studying Chinese marital arts intensely in Victoria and beyond since 2012, in the styles of Ziranmen, LiuHe and Sanda, Baguazhang, Xing Yi, Tai Ji (Wudang 28 and Beijing 24) and Qi Gong. She has been fortunate to learn from many excellent teachers and masters.

She is currently enjoying teaching in Hobart and surrounds, and sharing her experience of the benefits of this training philosophy. Martial arts training offers her a generative, restorative and rehabilitative daily practice, not only for the body, but also the mind and spirit.

Her music reflects the joy of rhythm and space, exploring our human condition. Her ink drawings explore surrealism or imagined realities, using intricate detail, and ‘black and white’ness to imitate the surety we seek and/or imagine in reality as we see it. She is interested in the underlying and unspoken which shadows our material perspective. In her experience, this is equally if not more important than the tangible facts of our reality. In her water colour and digital art she seeks the essence. Using the constraints of the media to find the simplest representation of the energy and the truth of the subject.