30th January 2026

Still making animations/paintings and writing about part two of ‘Little Brother and Little Sister’, loosely based on the Grimms’ story of the same name. For part two, my version shifts focus from the two siblings, imagining what might have happened if the sister had in fact made a mistake in believing her brother was transformed into a deer. In this version the little boy runs away from his sister after they have an argument and then gets lost, only to be found by an old woman who takes him in and brings him up. (While the sister cares for a baby deer in a deserted house in the forest, believing him to be her brother.) Here are a few pictures of work in progress on a hand made book that features in the story. It is small enough to easily fit into a pocket and was created by the old woman to help the little boy learn to read – she noticed that he finds proverbs interesting and especially likes the joke of mixing them up so she created a little book as a surprise for him.

As well as using this in the story I am making a limited edition of twenty of these handmade and hand painted books that will appear in my shop soon.

26th January 2026

It’s about 150 years since St Albans College of Art and Design (to name one of its iterations) began in a couple of rooms in the Town Hall (the building which now houses St Albans Museum and Gallery). By the time I got there in 1985 to study on the newly formed part time Fine Art BA it was, having inhabited a number of spaces, based in a purpose built art college in Hatfield Road. At some point during my five years the college was taken under the umbrella of Hertfordshire University and a few years later moved to new premises in College Lane Hatfield.

Currently UHArts are are celebrating the history of St Albans College of Art with a research project, inviting people with a connection to share memories, and with two exhibitions – one at St Albans Museum and Gallery (now finished) and the current show: Firm Foundations II: The Legacy of St Albans School of Art, at UHArts (College Lane Campus). If anybody would like to contribute to the research, please get in touch with UHArts, bearing in mind that the deadline is next month. And if you are interested in art education do visit the exhibition which is open until the 20th February. I am delighted to be part of the exhibition with three small paintings from my ‘Little Brother and Little Sister’ series from last year.

Below are a very few personal favourites from the exhibition, including my own works. Have included the introductory panel, image of some of the ceramics equipment from long time tutor, Hugh Spendlove, and images of these works by former students: High Folly by Jonathan McCree, Apu – in the high places, by Denise Bryan, Extruded Hanging Forms, by Asa Miller, and Tree, Deer and Table, by Jane Glynn, along with a photograph of the catalogue for the BA Fine Art Course the year we finished. There’s a label (like the last photograph) for each artist/artwork. Thanks to the teams at St Albans and Hatfield for thoughtful and dedicated work on this and the previous exhibition. As well as huge thanks to the souls who started the school 150 years ago and have continued the work, and the tutors, staff and visiting lecturers during my studies, including: Graham Boyd, David Seaton, Monica Puloy, Peter Whey, Helene Fessenmaier, Freya Purdue, Annabel Nicholson, and particularly visiting tutor Kate Davis who I only met twice but who put the idea into my head that perhaps, as a way of continuing with my art practice under difficult circumstances, I could try to make something every day; this has remained part of my practice and the short tutorial with Kate also serves as an example of what I think good education can be – a two way conversation.

If you work in arts and culture education you might be interested in Creating Creative Futures at UHArts on 29th January.

25th January 2026

Really enjoyed working with Open Art Box for a couple of sessions. We made pocket sized books celebrating things we like, using: collage materials, leaf and coin rubbing, and drawing. Here are a few photographs of some of the beautiful work produced in the sessions.

November 2025

Beautiful November here – spending a lot of time working outside (and using things I’ve brought in here from outside). I’m trying to get into the habit of giving the garden an hour of care and thought (as opposed to simply grabbing what I can find) before I start work in my studio. Today I planted some bulbs and seeds and then picked about ten allium heads on their stalks to finish drying them inside. They are about a foot taller than me and I love the way they keep their height while responding to the wind. They are also perfectly spherical.

Also continuing to make animation loops and drawings based on the next part of my story inspired by the Grimms’ Little Brother and Little Sister; calling this part The Wild Boy at the moment – referring to the fascination some people felt (in the late 1700s when this story is set) about finding a ‘wild’ (uneducated/ unspoiled child) and helping them mature into a perfect being.

In other news delighted to be included in this exhibition (on till Feb) at University of Herts, about the legacy and 150th anniversary of St Albans School of Art. This exhibition, as well as a beautifully curated breadth of work from artists who studied or taught there, also includes artefacts, documents and photographs from the history of the School and is fascinating and moving.

Firm Foundations Part II: The Legacy of St Albans School of Art

September 2025

Happy Autumn!

Above are the fronts and backs of some colour strips made with colours found outside, attached with silk thread: the beginning of a brand new time based piece.

Also working on the continuation of the story ‘Little Brother and Little Sister’ which I am tentatively calling ‘The Wild Boy’ and making animations linked to my memoir ‘Holding Still’. You can see some of the work in progress on Instagram and TikTok. (Links at the bottom of the info page.)

July 2025

Wonderful to work with Open Art Box last week. We used sticks, string and garden finds to create structures that could stand up by themselves and then made drawings of them.

March 27th 2025

Great day last Friday with UHArts, the Superpower of Looking and Bernards Heath Junior school, exploring our responses to two original pieces of artwork by Rana Begum, loaned for the day to the school.

March 8th 2025

Only a few days until my exhibition opens at the Broadway Gallery in Letchworth. I’m one of three Letchworth Open Bursary winners exhibiting our work from 21st March to 10th May. Here’s a link to more information about the work I’ll be showing. Please peruse the Broadway Gallery website for more details about all the exhibitions and about upcoming workshops at the gallery.

October 30th

Letchworth Open Bursary

Exciting news! Honoured (and delighted) to be one of three artists awarded a Letchworth Open Bursary which will include an exhibition of new work at the Broadway Gallery in early 2025. Here’s the little painting that I submitted for the exhibition:

It’s a painting inspired by the Grimm Brothers’ fairytale, ‘Little Brother and Little Sister’.

For the exhibition in February next year I plan to show more work inspired by this story which I have transported to England in the 1700s, with landscape borrowed from the Hertfordshire countryside and characters based on my immediate family and ancestors. It’s very much in process and includes animations, words, paintings, drawings and music. I have always been intrigued by fairytales and this one is a favourite with themes of sibling loyalty, care, transformation and of course a happy ending. Will share some of the work in progress here over the next few months and then at the exhibition in February – details will follow.

The other bursary recipients are: Guy Morris @the-guy-morris-project and Paul Stuart @paulstuartstudio

And there were prizes in seven other categories.

The Letchworth Open 2024 continues at the Broadway Gallery, Letchworth until Saturday November 9th. Highly recommend seeing if you haven’t yet. A wonderful celebration of Letchworth’s rich cultural seam. Thanks so much to everybody @broadway_studio_gallery who made this inclusive show possible and everybody else who submitted work and came along to have a look.

Dance Re-Ignite Festival

Have loved working as one of the artists with Beee Creative on the Dance Re:Ignite project this year. Here’s a paragraph from their website that explains the thinking behind the project:

‘The Dance Re:Ignite project is a framework of participatory and training activities and celebrations designed to enhance and develop dance practice and infrastructure of provision for 55+ year olds in Hertfordshire. There have been three iterations of the project so far, all of which demonstrated the positive impact shared collaborative dance engagement has on peoples’ lives and that contributing to an artistic product increases confidence, self-esteem and pride.To support the project’s overall aim, it encompassed eight strands of work: commissioned work, tour and workshops, annual dance festival, film, practitioner training, practitioner network and internships.’

To find out more and sign up to come along to the Dance Re-Ignite Festival on 6th November please look here.

Walk, Talk, Do, Care – Nature Notebooks

Working with Matipo Arts and Roots to Wellbeing again – this time making tiny books inspired by a walk around Parndon Mill. More information about the session and how to book for this and sessions with other guest artists please look here:

August 20th

Really enjoying spending more time making paintings, drawings and animations this year. I’ve been completely engrossed for the past twelve years in my time based work, examining passing time by repeated daily tasks. This has been part of my work for as long as I can remember and it completely took over my practice following my MA. I have forced myself to stop (perhaps just for a year – haven’t decided yet) as I found it impossible to give time to my story and illustration projects which have been simmering away for the past few years. It is wonderful to feel able to apply myself every day to whatever I feel like doing. The daily practice was partly a way of establishing some time and space to work given my family and work responsibilities but I am delighted that I no longer need to force myself to work every day – it has just become part of the fabric of me. So it feels funny but wonderful and liberating to be playful and various.

If you’d like to know more about the work please see the gallery:

Time based work and the twelve year project is here.

Most of my drawing, illustration and animations work is currently exploring two related themes: first a memoir about our eldest daughter and her continuing influence on our lives here and my own version of a Grimm story exploring sibling relationships here.

Tiny books workshop, St Albans, Sunday 8th September 2024

Delighted to be running a session for all, creating miniature hand sewn and bound books at St Albans Museum and Gallery, on the last day of the wonderful Ladybird Book exhibition.

Participants will create their own pocket sized book to fill with pictures, writing, lists or sketches or whatever else feels right for the book.

It’ll run from 2.00 – 4.30 with a short break in the middle on Sunday 8th September. 

Full instruction and equipment will be provided. No experience necessary. Everybody will leave with a beautiful hand sewn and bound book and the skills and knowledge to make more at home.

book here

Open Art Box, Autumn 2023

Great to be working with Open Art Box for a few weeks. We’ll be inspired by plants and flowers to explore many different media and ideas. This week we arranged plants and flowers and made paintings inspired by the shapes and colours.

Our Community, Our Environment, Harlow, Summer 2023:

Delighted to be part of this project and exhibition. Over 20 schools and community organisations worked with 14 artists and cultural organisations over the summer term 2023. I worked with St Lukes and St Albans Catholic Academies responding to shapes and colours we found in the school grounds, working together to create large and small circles using wax resist techniques. Other artists helped children work with a huge range of inspirations and skills including: collage, modelling, pin-hole cameras, poetry and performance and there were workshops for families in the gallery, including paper boat making with the wonderful Suman Gujral. All the work was brought together in the form of an exhibition beautifully curated by Elaine Tribley at the Gibberd Gallery (until Saturday 15th July).

Walk Talk Do: Parndon Mill, Harlow, May 2023:

Was wonderful to work with Matipo Arts on this gentle exploration of the beautiful surroundings of Parndon Mill through walking, chatting and creating. The walk was led by wonderful Tara from Roots to Wellbeing and she also shared her knowledge about local plants and wildlife including hawthorn. First time I’ve ever had hawthorn tea made from the leaves and flowers – but been drinking it at home ever since and have a cup next to me as I type. Really enjoyed meeting so many new creative people. We explored local leaves through wax rubbings and then made collages of imaginary plants and creatures.

Photographs below by Tara Whittle

April Beautiful Creatures, 2023

Here are some pictures of some of the beautiful work from our April session in Datchworth. Thanks so much to everybody who came – hope you enjoyed it as much as me!

Sunday 26th March 2023: Make and Draw on Zoom:

Loved this session – we met on zoom to create and draw imaginary insects from leaves and flowers. Participants from France, London and Herts explored flowers and foliage from their own gardens.

24th Feb 2023: Art with Natural Materials

We met in the beautiful All Saints Church Hall in Datchworth on Friday 24th February to play with February plants and flowers: cutting, sewing and pressing to create new patterns.

This is the second one-off session this year, sharing my fascination for the daily changes in the colours and shapes that I find outside as the year goes by. Thanks so much to those that were able to join us.

Photographs below by Lise Bosher

12th Feb 2023: dance/art workshop:

This dance workshop, with Beee Creative, was led by dancer Maga Judd and artists Elizabeth Murton and myself. The sessions include visual art activities and improvised movement. The venue was YMC Woodlands Community Hub, Abbots Langley WD5 OGU. Funded by TNL Community Fund.

18th Feb: Changing Circles at All About Us, 2023:

All About Us exhibition at St Albans Museum and Gallery celebrated the creativity and resilience of the learning disabled community in St Albans. All About Us is an Arts Council of England funded project run by Trestle Theatre Company. Delighted to run some art sessions for this wonderful project, including a session open to all at St Albans Museum and Gallery on the 18th February.

Art with Natural Materials:

In 2023 I’ll be working on a year long project using found materials, including things that I find growing outside. Will be making daily work along with running some sessions for other people who’d like to have a go at playing with what we find. Very much enjoyed my first session at Parndon Mill. We explored winter leaf colour combinations and juxtapositions using materials gathered outside on a rainy day. I find sewing comforting and love the way it slows me down enough to become completely immersed in what I’m doing – it’s especially pleasurable working with other people and seems to create the perfect atmosphere for conversation. For more about my time based sewing project, ‘New Arrangements 2023’ please look here. And if you’d like to join me for the next leaf and flower sewing session (taking place in various venues throughout the year) please watch this space or email me and I’ll put you on the mailing list. (jane@janeglynn.co.uk)

Fluid Time at Mill Green Museum, October 2022

Very pleased to exhibit with Elizabeth Murton at Mill Green Museum throughout September with a closing event on Sunday 2nd October. And was wonderful to work with Beee Creative dance company on dance performances with some of our artworks for the closing event on 2nd October.