With more than a dozen solo exhibitions to date, Jane Canfield has works in many private collections in Australia and Internationally. Her landscapes are simplified and reduced, creating an impression of the landscape, and using colour as a driving force for the composition.

Jane paints primarily in oils and gouache, working off smaller studies produced en plein air and producing larger oil paintings in her studio. She is inspired by the landscape around her in the Central West of New South Wales.

Jane has held over twelve solo exhibitions and is in many private collections internationally. In 2014 she was collected into the prestigious Kedumba Drawing Award, and has been a finalist in many art prizes including the Paddington, NSW Parliament and Calleen Art Award.

“As I write, I am looking out the window of my 1850’s Sandstone Inn, West of the Blue Mountains. It’s a view that must have changed a lot since those early days of Cobb & Co coaches and candlelight, but a constant is a rolling hillside with changing light, rain, and the seasons playing across the valley.

I hope my work reveals my love of life and tranquility that I often feel either at home in the studio, or if I am traveling, finding inspiration in the landscape in my 1974 VW Kombi ‘Dot’ with my little dogs.

I think I would currently class my work as ‘semi-abstracted tonalism’. I am always striving to simplify, but as Painter Nicolas de Staël once commented, still able to see the landscape that inspired it.”

Jane was born in New Zealand (Christchurch) in 1967 and grew up in an artistic family, with her father, Tony Canfield a collected artist, inventor, motor mechanic, and designer. Every weekend they would go camping and her Dad would be sketching and painting. This love of working in nature has followed her to this day… and her love of classic cars…

Jane was accepted at an early age to Graphic Design College (Randwick TAFE, Sydney 1984) and spent 20 years working in the industry, but always drew and painted. She first came to notice for her strong lino-cut prints but it was not until her Dad passed away in 2004 that she became a full-time artist.

She was a WIRES volunteer for 17 years (particularly interested in Flying Foxes and Bats) and was one of the founding volunteer directors on the Katoomba & Upper Blue Mountains Bendigo Community Bank Branch which returns thousands of dollars every year to not-for-profit and community groups in the region.

Selected Exhibitions

– 2024 finalist, 9×5 Landscape Prize. Waverley/Woollahra, Sydney
– 2024 finalist, Regional Landscape Prize, Orange NSW.
– 2023 finalist, 40/40 Sketch Co Gallery, Sydney
– 2023 finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery
– 2023 solo exhibition ‘Solstice’, Day Gallery, Blackheath NSW
– 2023 finalist, Mt Eyre Art Prize
– 2023 group exhibition, Rochfort Gallery, Sydney
– 2022 finalist 9×5 Landscape Prize. Waverley/Woollahra, Sydney
– 2022 finalist Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery, NSW
– 2021 finalist Paddington Art Prize, Sydney
– 2020 finalist Waverley/Woollahra 9 x5 Landscape Prize
– 2020 solo exhibition ‘Tonalism’, Day Gallery, Blackheath NSW
– 2018 finalist Korea-Australia Arts Foundation Art Prize
–   2018 finalist, NSW Parliament Plein Air Art Prize
–   2018 solo exhibition, Still Life, Interiors and Landscape, Rex-Livingston Art + Objects, Katoomba.
–   2018 Here/Now Exhibition, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange NSW.
–   2018 finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery, NSW.
–   2017 finalist NSW Parliament Plein Air Art Prize, Sydney.
–   2017 solo exhibition ‘All Over the Place,’ Rex-Livingston Art + Objects.
–   2017 finalist Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery.
–   2017 group exhibition ‘Crack Fox & Friends,’ Rex-Livingston Art + Objects.
–   2016 solo exhibition ‘Victa’s Paddock’ Rex-livingston Art + Objects.
–   2016 group exhibition ‘Looking at Landscape #2,’ Rex-Livingston Art + Objects.
–   2016 winner Blackheath Art Prize, Members Exhibition.
–   2016 finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery.
–  2015 Salon de Refuses, NSW Parliament Plein Air Art Prize.
–   2014 Kedumba Drawing Award (acquired.) Judge: Ann Cape.
–   2014 finalist, Paddington Art Prize.
–   2014 finalist, Norvill Art Prize
–   2014 finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery.
–   2013 feature artist, Gallery Blackheath.
–   2013 solo exhibition, Leura.
–   2013 finalist, Central West Regional Art Awards, Cowra Regional Art Gallery.
–   2012 finalist, Norvill Art Prize.
–   2012 Art For Art’s Sake, Art Fair, Sydney.
–   2010 finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Sydney.
–   2010 finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery.
–   2010 solo exhibition, Hat Hill Gallery, Blackheath NSW.
–   2010 solo exhibition, Global Gallery, Sydney NSW.
–   2009 solo exhibition, Leura.
–   2009 finalist Mosman Art Prize, Mosman NSW. (Selected by M. Olley ).
–   2009 finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery.
–   2008 solo exhibition, Coast Gallery, Milton.
–   2008 solo exhibition, Leura.
–   2008 Sublime Elevations, group exhibition, Sydney Olympic Park.
–   2008 Sydney Art Fair, Moore Park, Sydney.
–   2008 finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery.
–   2008 BMAN Crockett Prize – Contemporary, acquisitive.
–   2008 finalist, Waverley Art Prize, Bondi.
–   2007 finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery.
–   2007 group exhibition, Shapiro Galleries, Sydney.
–   2007 solo exhibition, Seeger Gallery, Leura.
–   2006 solo exhibition, The Little Gallery, Katoomba.
–    2006 finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery.
–    2006 solo exhibition, Norman Lindsay Gallery, Faulconbridge.
–    2005 group exhibition Sydney Town Art Gallery, Redfern, Sydney.
–    2004 solo exhibition, Katoomba

Awards/Collections

– 2024 Winner Waverley Woollahra 9X5, best Coastal Painting
–     2016 Winner Blackheath Art Society Members Exhibition
–     2014 Acquired into the Kedumba Drawing Award
–     2014, 2015 selected workshop artist, Telstra/NSW Parliament Plein Air Art Prize, Sydney.
–     2010 Winner Springwood Art Exhibition, Rose Lindsay Art Award.
–     Cittaslow (Katoomba) gift to Cittaslow (Italy).
–     2008 Winner BMAN Crockett Prize – Contemporary, acquisitive.
–     2008 highly commended, Winmalee Art Fest.
–     2007 highly commended, Winmalee Art Fest.
–     2006 finalist, ‘Signature of Sydney’ Art Prize.
–     Penrith City Council Sister City Collection.
–     2005 merit award. Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery.
–     1987 Blue Mountains City Flag Design Winner.
–     1992 print media award winner, North Queensland Tourism Awards.

Selected Media

–   Discover Central West magazine.
–   Discover Blue Mountains Magazine.
–   Feature mini documentary ‘Leura Breathe – ‘Painter’, Leura Village Association.
–   Australian Country Style Magazine.
–   Released 2013 ‘Arnie the Artist’s Muse. A True Doggie Tail’, art book.
–   Vogue Living Australia.
– Sydney Weekender, Channel 7.
–    Australian House & Garden Magazine.
–    Australian Art Collector ‘50 Things a Collector Needs to Know’ edition.
–    Local Heroes coffee table book by Melissa Mylchreest and Meryl Butterworth.
–    McGrath Magazine.