Jane Rutherford is
a contemporary Scottish landscape artist.
Jane Rutherford is a contemporary Scottish landscape artist who has exhibited widely in art galleries both here in Scotland and abroad. She is predominantly a landscape painter and she also produces drawings and artist's prints. Colour is central to Jane's painting and she finds inspiration in the artwork of John Piper, Dufy, Rae and the Scottish Colourists, amongst others.
Jane Rutherford's painting and drawing has always focussed on the patterns found in the landscape, rhythms created and shaped by human intervention – fields and woodlands, tracks and roads, gardens and clearings, and the juxtaposition of the natural and nurtured environment. Her recent artwork concentrates on her immediate environment, using gardens and the sea as a source of inspiration. The boundaries between lawns or paths and flower beds or the boundary between the land and the sea. Her choice of subject matter is driven by her emotional connection to a particular place.
She works using mixed media with acrylic or oil, on paper, canvas or board. The use of collage – vintage and modern patterned fabric, wallpaper and other printed material - is playing an increasingly important role in her current work. Inspiration is also found in the finding and collecting of patterned china fragments.
Jane Rutherford was born in London in 1967, studied at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art between 1985 and 1990, and has lived and worked in Brazil and Ireland and Scotland. She is currently living and painting in Edinburgh.