About

I am an artist based in the Chiltern Hills, working primarily as a painter and printmaker.

I graduated from a painting degree at Kingston University in 1998. I then worked for many years in museums and art schools, and delivered art sessions for children. During this time I continued to paint, moving my studio from Bethnal Green to the Chilterns in 2007. Up until my move from the city, my work was heavily focused on interior spaces, and made in conjunction with some poems and short stories that I was writing at the time. I felt this work was private and insular, and heavily influenced by my urban surroundings.

Moving to the rural landscape of South Bucks changed my entire working practice. I began to experiment with printmaking and this has become an important part of the way I work at present. I use collage and drawing in a new way, playing with process far more than in the past. Much of my thinking has been influenced by the lyrical nature writing of Robert Macfarlane, and my own experiences of walking in woodland, on paths of chalk and flint, under the subterranean canopy of the beech woods.

I returned to my own practice full time in 2015 and have been working ever since in a studio surrounded by beech woods and the ancient trails and hills of the Chilterns. I regularly deliver linocut workshops and tutorials on request to individuals, small groups and art clubs.

I am the Artist in Residence at Wycombe Museum and have made a series of prints of their collections, currently exhibited in situ. My work is held in private collections in the UK and overseas

contact

To get in touch about any of the work on this site, book a linocut workshop or to arrange a studio visit,

please email: janepeacock.art@gmail.com

or call: 07901 663310