All items by Jane Carlisle Bellerby Silk Art

Silk and Mixed Media Art

Silk artist Jane Carlisle Bellerby predominantly creates work exploring the concepts of 'green exercise' and 'green health', namely the positive benefits that being out in the land and within nature can give us, both physically and psychologically.

Direct contact with the land is illustrated through a variety of techniques: texture rubbings and prints, natural dyeing, eco printing and rust marking on silk, a fabric used to denote preciousness. Manmade rubbish weathered by the elements and collected whilst walking are utilised alongside natural found objects, tokens of a place visited. Recurring motifs are used throughout Jane's work, the golden suture representing improving health and emotional fortitude, concentric circles and holes/portals signifying movement through space whilst also acting as a sanctuary.