Jane Minter
British artist living in Veneto, Italy
BA (Hons) & Diploma in Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture (KIAD) 1996 now University for Creative Arts.
Collaborating with partner’s architectural engineering practice in London & Italy
Teaching watercolour workshops and classes in Italy and France
Solo exhibition – Jane Minters’s Watercolours, Vicenza, Italy (2011)
Biennial International Prize “Marche d’Acqua”, Museo della Carta, Fabriano, Italy (2016)
Birds, L’Officina & Galleria Tino Ghelfi, Vicenza, Italy (2018)
Benedetti Artist, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Molino Benedetti, (VI) Italy (2014)
In the Sketchbook, Studio 60, Vicenza, Italy (2014)
Jane’s practice moves fluidly between observation, abstraction, and material experimentation. With a background in architecture, she explores the interplay between structure and spontaneity through drawing and painting. Sketchbook in hand, with a camera ever ready to record, she captures fleeting moments — fragments of place, shifts in light, traces of time.
Drawing is both a way of seeing and thinking — rooted in direct observation, memory, and material exploration.She shifts between macro and micro perspectives, capturing the smallest details and the larger whole, tracing movement and perception through shifting viewpoints. Passionate about watercolour, she works in rhythm with the water cycle —flowing, pooling, evaporating and dispersing across the surface. Her process embraces chance and transformation, allowing water, pigment, and paper to interact organically.
Through mark making, she translates sensory and ephemeral experiences — light and shadow, texture, atmosphere, sound, and touch. She engages deeply with materiality, allowing water, weather and found elements to shape and inform her work. She sources pigments from the landscape. Moving between two – dimensional and three-dimensional explorations, she investigates space, structure, and perception. Her process is one of distillation — paring back, simplifying, and refining — responding intuitively to place through line, form, colour, and surface.
My work is a continuous dialogue with the landscape — a visual diary of quiet observations, fleeting shifts, and hidden rhythms. Living among the vineyards and hills of northern Italy, I respond to the textures, light, and structures of my surroundings, capturing moments before they slip into memory.
Drawing is the foundation of my practice, grounded in my love of watercolour. I work intuitively, allowing the process to guide my observations. I gather materials from the land — making charcoal from pruned vines, inks from fallen walnuts and oak galls, and pigments from vines and trees, allowing the landscape to inform my work. A sketchbook is always in hand, mapping unseen connections between what is ephemeral and what endures. My process is layered and evolving, balancing abstraction and observation, order and chaos, the man-made and the organic. I am drawn to the geometric rhythms of the vineyards, the shifting perspectives revealed through movement, and the framing of views through windows, shutters, and doorways. Through detail and abstraction, I seek to distill a sense of place — not as something fixed, but as something in constant flux unfolding with each moment. I document my process with photography, capturing traces of process and transformation — both in the work and in the landscape itself.
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