About Jane Cooper

Painter, printmaker and designer, Jane Cooper was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She received a BFA from Denison University and is a member of the Center of Contemporary Printmaking and the Katonah Museum Artists’ Association. Her work is in numerous galleries on the East Coast, private homes and collections across the US. Jane lives and maintains a studio in Katonah and prints at The Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT.

Artist Statement

Painting is like theatre. In my life, the two are inexorably linked. They are worlds I move between. Process, character and light. Color, form and performance. For me, it’s blue, the color pervades all memory. The cobalt of delft, the indigo green of the creek by our house, the lakes of Michigan, sapphire seas around New Zealand, the blue of my daughters’ eyes. My mother’s eyes. Water and sky. Water which my thoughts and my body crave. Water which my imagination fears – losing sight of land. Nature in abstract- abstracted representation in which my imagery seeks to delineate form and alter focus creating an atmospheric sense of place and time.