JANE CABRERA
Jane Cabrera was born just outside London and now lives in Devon, UK. Alongside her fine art practice, she's an award winning children's book author and illustrator, publishing 61 books internationally.
She initially trained as a graphic designer and has worked as a book designer and muralist. She has an MA in fine art from The City & Guilds of London Art School.
Selected group exhibitions
2025
Transmission, Stack Market Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Transmission 2, Millbank Tower, London, UK
2024
A room of one's own, Irving Gallery, Oxford, UK
2023
Brighten Ye Corners, Field System Gallery, Devon, UK
Summer Open, Studio KIND, Devon, UK
Archive of Mother Artists, Procreate Project, Oxford, UK
2022
Stand Tall, Southcombe Barn Gallery, Devon, UK
2018
N.E.W group show, Ashburton Arts centre, Devon, UK
Other
Open studio, Ashburton Arts trail, 2024
Devon Open studio, 2016
Strange creatures meeting, Birdwood Gallery, Totnes, with Claudia Schmid, 2016
Without permission, Solo exhibition and installation, various locations Dartington, 2014
Press
BBC radio, upload interview, July 2024
Flow international magazine, issue 39, 2024
The Amphibian magazine, Issue no. 6 Spring 2024
In her Studio magazine 2022
Flow magazine 2021
Congregation magazine, 2018
Uppercase magazine, 2018
From Rain to Rainbows, Chronicle books 2015
The Morran book Project curated by Camilla Engman 2011
Devon Life magazine, 2010
C.V
1996-present Children's book Author and Illustrator, 61 books
2017- 2022 Mural, signs and shop window Artist
1996 Freelance designer, clients including, BBC books, paper tiger design and DK children's books
1993-1996 Book designer, Reed Children's books (Egmont)
1991-1992 Book designer, ABC children's books and DK publishing
1989-1991 Art director, Apollo Arts and Antiques magazine
Other awards, talks, book and all publications over at children's book biography
Artist Statement
Predominantly through paint, I express the felt joy and vibrational energies of ecological abundance and diversity. A biophilic natural affinity of all life. I explore themes of deep time, cooperative plant networks, non human intelligence and impermanence. My paintings are an invitation to embrace unknown dimensions of reality, experienced in the wild, the sensations, light, colour, sound and texture.
I often start from meditative drawings made on Dartmoor National Park, then work with intuitive fast expressive movements of layered paint, mixed with slower quieter narratives that transport to hidden portals which close the gap between inner and outer landscapes.
My paintings are a love letter to the unconscious frequencies that connect all life and a reminder of what we are losing through rapid extinction and exploitation of the natural world, in this human dominated Anthropcence.