Jane Ormerod was born on the south coast of England and attended art college in London before moving to New York City in 2002. After relocating to NYC, she concentrated on poetry and spoken word and performed across the United States and beyond. Fast forward to 2021 and now living in Hudson, she was inspired to return to visual art. Since then her work has been exhibited in group shows at Arbor Gallery (Carmel), CREATE Council on the Arts (Catskill), Gallery 40 (Poughkeepsie), Super Secret Projects (Beacon), LABspace (Hillsdale), and Circle 46 Gallery (Hudson), plus artwork and writing in print journals and anthologies such as Maintenant, The Sparring Artists, From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream, and two solo poetry collections.
In 2020, Jane received a NYC Acker Award for her contribution to the avant-garde community. Alongside John K Lawson, she hosts and curates the monthly literary/performance series “A Galère of Poetic Autopsies” at Hudson’s Park Theater.
Artist Statement
Chance, fluctuation, intuition, a desire for the unexpected and unidentifiable. As the painting finds its own life, themes and memories are revealed behind the gestures. Childhood, the body, ghosts, fears, our ancestors, all lie in the shadows. Applying pigment to canvas becomes a relationship with time; a continuous dialogue between material, action, and thought.
A week after completing the painting “Calculus and Fender…” I discovered a drawing created when I was seventeen. The shapes and colors were an almost exact match. How many layers exist in this world? What is that melody heard faintly between our thoughts?