Jane graduated from the Tasmanian School of Art, in 1984, when it was situated at Mount Nelson, in the hills above Hobart. After graduation, Jane spent an extra year enrolled in the printmaking department learning to etch and eventually she completed two Masters degrees, one in painting and one in lithography. The University of Tasmania has offered Jane PhD candidacy in the School of Creative Arts, and she commenced in 2022. Jane is represented by Penny Contemporary in Hobart, Fox Galleries in Melbourne and Janet Clayton Gallery, online, in Sydney.

Jane’s plein air, and studio work, is influenced by the Australian landscape and the people and animals who work in it. Life in the bush, mountains and rural universes fills her lungs and mind with the scratch and grit, the heat and wind and vibrating, freezing air which keeps her work full of the verve she desires. The human animal progresses on its merry-go-round and yet behaves self-destructively. Like a feral creature, a virus, it is a wonderful organism in uninhabitable places. The struggle is perpetual and defiant; it keeps Jane moving. 

She has had fifteen solo exhibitions since 2005 and was a finalist in the Ravenswood National Women's Art Prize, The Lloyd Rees, The Wyndham, The Outback, the Glover, the Whyalla, the Muswellbrook, the Alice, the Cossack, the Paddington and John Leslie Art and Hutchins prizes. Her work has appeared in the Redlands, Fisher's Ghost (Photography) and Blacktown Art Prizes.