About

Jane Harding is an experimental printmaker who trained at the University of the West of England. She uses unconventional printmaking techniques to explore the natural environment and the consequences of human exploitation of the planet.  Her work is a response to personal experience, and reflects the constant and escalating uncertainty with which we live.  She has exhibited at the University of York, the Guatemalan Centre and the Bankside Gallery in London, the Bleddfa Centre, the Sydney Nolan Trust, and Rabley Contemporary Drawing Gallery.

Following a career in education and counselling, she worked for the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), then moved to Shropshire where she expanded her practice.   After a successful exhibition with Don Braisby and Frances Carlile at the Bleddfa Centre in Powys, Jane began a project with writer and poet David Powley, using his poem Yesterday as a starting point.   She saw the poem as a lament for the way the older generation has failed to look after the environment.   In essence, what we did yesterday, means that we must all fix it today so that the next generation can have a tomorrow.  Jane wanted to include the “visual voice” of the younger generation, and at her instigation, Foundation Students from Hereford College made a film, which premiered at Borderlines Film Festival in March 2024, giving their response to the poem.

Jane also sought contributions from the art group to which she belongs, Abstract Edge.   The result was a multimedia exhibition at the Discovery Centre in Craven Arms, an environmental hub, where, with the students’ film, it acted as a prompt for a conversation between the generations.  The discussion was filmed by a student, Finn Middleton.   All this work is available to see on the website yesterdaytodaytomorrow.earth.   Yesterday, today, tomorrow will be shown in full during 2025.

Jane has begun a new body of work based on themes derived from the poem and from a journey to the Hebrides.