jane cornish smith
ABOUT THE ARTIST
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Originally from Canada, Dallas area-based artist Jane Cornish Smith’s nomadic childhood, along with her artist mother, fostered an appreciation for creativity from a young age. Jane produces paintings and sculpture with a diversity of materials and subject matter, with a focus on cold wax medium and encaustic. Usually figurative or environmental in nature, her work often reveals human vulnerabilities, with the goal of providing viewers with self-reflective opportunities. She has attended artist residencies at the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy; Vermont Studio Center; and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; and earned BFA and MLA degrees from Southern Methodist University with a MFA from Texas A&M University-Commerce. An award-winning artist, her work hangs in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Africa, as part of the Art in Embassies Program; University of Texas at Tyler; Texas A&M University-Commerce; Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, Texas; the Museum of Encaustic Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Tenby Museum and Art Gallery in Wales, U.K.; the Cancer Support Community of North Texas; and others. She enjoys curating, conducting workshops, teaching at Texas A&M University-Commerce, and making art from her studio in rural Lone Oak, Texas.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
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I make paintings and sculpture with an expanse of materials. Paper, plaster, textiles, paint, encaustic, cold wax, and other media are applied, crocheted, or collaged into two-dimensional and three-dimensional work. The artworks begin as thin layers and build up to textural surfaces that are often figurative or reference the environment. A pushing of materials represent a constant movement, liberty, openness, and traversing of boundaries.
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