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Born in St Mawes, and raised in Mid Cornwall, Jane Lloyd went to London to study illustration at the Central School of Art. She married and settled there.

During the 1970's she worked as an illustrator as well as undertaking several mural commissions in public buildings and institutions. It was during the 1980's that she began to concentrate on developing her own work.

She often comes to Cornwall to visit her family and finds Cornwall a constant source of inspiration for her paintings.

She writes... "when I am in Cornwall I look, smell, listen, feel and draw, yet when I leave and get back to my studio, I find that the images I produce bear little relation to the drawings I have made. Something else intervenes from the memory and imagination.. ..the deep pools of childhood experience."

Her paintings are a poetic narrative of this landscape, how it has been shaped by man and weather. But moreover, these works are arenas where colour, shape and tone are as important as the subject matter.

It is the merger of these two themes and the search for that moment of completion that drives Janes work. She quotes Kitaj " 'when the paintings are old enough to leave home'...I can just push them out onto the water."