Indigo and shibori have held Jane's attention since she studied textiles at the West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham. Her tutors were Deryn O'Connor, Susan Bosence, and Diana Harrison. She went on to study at the Natalie Bray school of Haute Couture. She has taught and presented her textiles in schools, art institutions, at degree level and for many groups and guilds.

Her work has evolved out of a passion for pattern making. Limiting her pallet and using indigo predominatley she has focused on technique, inventing stitch formats and finding new surface qualities to combine with indigo shibori resists. 

'Shibori is a test of faith – one invests hours of stitching, blind as it were, before the ‘thought’ is revealed at the end of the process. I continue to delight in pattern making and I find a completeness in symmetry – no matter how intricate, how complex – it conveys an order, a calm, which greatly appeals'.

International presentations and workshops have included:-

2007 Miawa Symposium 'Tradition & Revival' Vancouver, Canada.

2008 Aranya Natural, Munnar, India.

2009 Kuwait Textile Arts Association, Kuwait.

2009 Textile Museum, Budapest, Hungary.

She has exhibited at the Knitting and Stitching shows, with ICHF's Creative Stitching Shows, 'The Art of the Stitch', with the World Shibori Network and at other selected events.