Predominantly through paint, Jane Cabrera depicts the joy of ecological abundance mixed with the unconscious frequencies of plant life. That biophillic natural affinity for all life. She translates the vibrational energies, felt sensations, light, colour and texture with intuitive movements of layered paint and narratives that transport us to hidden worlds and close the gap between inner and outer landscapes.
Jane often works from her drawings made on Dartmoor National Park. She has interests in deep time, cooperative plant networks, root systems and impermanence and works with an awareness of living in the Anthropocene with its intersectional exploitation of people and planet. But both art and nature can help us recalibrate and then shift from passive anxiety to active hope.
Bio
Jane Cabrera has a rich creative history. Alongside her fine art practice, she's an award winning Children's book Author and Illustrator, publishing 61 books internationally. She was also a graphic designer, children's bok designer and muralist.
She is currently studying an MA in Fine Art at The City & Guilds of London Art School.
She lives between London and Devon, UK
Selected group shows
Transmission, Stack Market Gallery, Toronto, April 2025
Transmission 2, Millbank Tower, London, May 2025
A room of one's own, Irving Gallery, Oxford, March-April 2024
Field System Gallery, Ashburton, December 2023
Studio KIND, Devon, Summer Open 2023
Procreate Project's Archive of Mother Artists, Oxford old fire station, March-May 2023
Stand Tall Art Auction for Ukranian refugees, Southcombe Barn Gallery, Devon, 2022
N.E.W group show Installation, Ashburton Arts Centre, 2018
Press
BBC upload interview, July 2024 listen here
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