Jayne Simpson

Jayne Simpson is a visual artist, mentor, educator and curator in the North West of England. She has taught visual art in further and higher education and privately for the last 30 years and now teaches life drawing and mentors privately with individual artists and organisations alongside her studio practice at The Birley Studios and Project Space, Preston. She has recently organised and hosted symposiums and exhibitions of female painters from the North of England, this work has been gratefully supported by Arts Council England and Lancashire Sports and Culture Fund. She is an exhibiting and commissioned artist and her practice reflects on memory and personal histories. She is responding to the passing of time and the human condition, especially as the lived, female experience.