A Line in Thread

This is an exhibition of Jane Walker's work. She combines stitching with painting. Her work is about the urban environment, but a recent turn has been looking at how the coal industry is remembered. About Jane Walker uses stitching in painting. Initially she used stitched lines to give a different character to drawn lines. Over time the stitches and texture they make have developed further with added collage and cuts into the paper or canvas. Some of her canvases have a deep texture but it is not made with thick paint, in fact she uses watercolour techniques. The cities that appear in her work are often based on Sheffield, where shes lives. Her viewpoint is high up lokking down on the city. A recent turn in her work is using stitching to remember the coal industry both in South Yorkshire and the Saarland. Her imagery moves on a sliding scale between abstract and real or imagined places, but not in an unfocussed way, more that images are transient the come and go in the process of painting. Painting