Jane Balshaw is a fourth-generation artist who has cultivated her craft through a diverse range of artistic fields including silversmithing, dressmaking, make-up artistry, aesthetics, styling, carpentry, and interior decorative arts. However, it was in the 1980s that she discovered her true passion for quilting.
Jane’s art blends contemporary expression with traditional craft techniques. Her quilting work merges cloth, needle, and thread with painterly techniques, incorporating elements from old-world decorative arts and the styles of The Masters, often guided by the principles of the Golden Ratio.
Her unique style is further enriched by incorporating paper-making, felting, wood burning, and jewelry techniques into her stitched or quilted textiles. This synthesis of historical aesthetics with modern expression reflects her goal of evoking awe and inspiration in viewers.
Jane explains her approach: “It has taken me years to hone in and merge my love of the earlier time period aesthetic with my love of a modern expression. It is my hope that when my work is viewed with the collaboration of all these parts, it promotes a feeling of awe and inspiration.”