Jane Titley
Jane Titley is one of Celf o Gwmpas workshop facilitators and one of the resident artists in Stiwdio Celf o Gwmpas.
Jane has been a self-employed artist, educator and art facilitator since 2006. Before that, she worked in charity campaigning and marketing in London, evolving into community engagement projects in Bristol. She then draw on her planning, communication and evaluation skills from her former life when organising and delivering workshops, exhibitions and community arts projects. Jane’s art practice lends itself to group work and she has worked particularly successfully with adults with learning difficulties at Celf o Gwmpas and at Orchard Studios in Bristol. led a few workshops with older people and would like to do more.
The core of her art practice is the thoughtful combination of small objects and colours to make exuberant artworks confined in a pattern or framework. Jane draws on the domestic traditions of fabric re-use in patchwork, mending and embroidery, extending this to the re-use of packaging and paper, and continual re-circulation of old artworks into new ones. She work with fabric, paper, paint, glue and stitch, sometimes incorporating found objects.
BA (hons) in Art History and English Literature (1983), PGCE in Art (1984), Advanced Certificate in Marketing (1996), Foundation Diploma in Art (2006), Award in Adult Education and Training (2015).