Jane Peart is a superb etcher and illustrator, concentrating on subjects like Oxford, her home town, and on the animals of Africa following a recent visit to Kenya.

In particular, Jane has produced several magnificent elephant studies, tenderly reproducing the texture of their hide, plus offering treatments of pelicans, monkeys, polar bears and rhinoceros.

Her piece, Drifting Through Oxford, is a collage of etched plates, letting the viewer drift through the most English of English cities, via the Radcliffe Camera, past the ancient door to Oriel College, meeting a busker playing the violin and on towards a man selling balloons.

In a more ambitious piece, Jane has recently completed a commission of a 43-plate etching for the Oxford Regional Health Authority, featuring all aspects of hospital life from the characters who check us in and look after us, to modern medical equipment and the magnificent architecture of Oxford's hospitals.

Jane completed a four year illustration course in London in 1975 and she now lives with her family in Oxford. She is a committee member of the Oxford Printmakers Co-operative and of the Oxford Art Society and her work is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

You can see more of Jane's work at: www.janepeart.co.uk

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