Jane Corbett is an artist with over forty years of creative experience. In recent years, her focus has been painting and small sculptures under glass.
Corbett's paintings and sculptures combine recurring themes of collect, protect, enshrine and encase. The artist has a lifelong fascination for collecting treasures, pocketed on a beach walk or from beside a hedgerow, visually banked from a museum display or unexpectedly surfacing in her imagination.
Stemming from her many years of interest in private and public collections of both the beautiful and the bizarre, Corbett gathers the threads of her various findings into intriguing collections of objects, where visual connections override more traditional themes of how and why objects are displayed together.
Following her interest in the history of 'Cabinets of Curiosity,’ Corbett invents her own 21st century cabinets, where objects are often painted within a frame of niches, or boxes, suggesting a glimpse through open doors into a private cabinet -- welcoming viewers into her own collections.
Since studying Fine Art at Newcastle University in the early 1980’s, Corbett has worked in glass, ceramic, and print. She was a couture milliner for over twenty years, crafting bespoke hats including for high-profile clients. Her art has been exhibited widely in the UK and is in numerous private collections.
Corbett lives and works in Berkshire, where she has a studio in her garden.